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5.11 Variables Versus Attributes
When should you use variables or attributes?

Both netCDF variables and attributes are named, typed containers for values. When should you use a netCDF attribute instead of a netCDF variable to hold a value?

Characteristics of variables:

Characteristics of attributes:

 


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