clouds.cdl example

• Note that each value is stored as a single byte, but ncdump shows the full value labels in the corresponding CDL text.
• The "_" symbol is how ncdump displays missing values.
• Values of enum type may be useful as members of compound types.

Here is C code that creates the corresponding netCDF file, generated by running:

  ncgen -k 3 -l C clouds.cdl > clouds.c

example.c

2011 Unidata NetCDF Workshop > Using Groups and NetCDF-4 Types