Hi Patrick, Thanks for letting us know that you found the answer in our archive of past support responses. I had actually forgotten the answer and was ready to tackle it, but your email saved us time of rediscovering this format idiosyncrasy :-). --Russ > thank you for giving a ticket and for the links where I found a previous > posting related to my question at > =============================================================================== > [netCDF #AMR-714212]: netcdf file size for limited vs unlimited (24 Mar 2010) > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > --> > http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/support/help/MailArchives/netcdf/msg09067.html > =============================================================================== > Thread Subject: netcdf file size for limited vs unlimited dimension (24 Mar, > 2010) > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > --> http://www.mathworks.ch/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/277391 > =============================================================================== > providing valuable information - and the answer / explanation to my question: > > ..the behaviour described below (of getting different files when using type > SHORT) is related to the NetCDF library iteself and it is intentionally - > but it can be solved by the work-around of changing in the CDF text file > (with 2-variables) the 'time'-dimension from UNLIMITED to the actual number > of time steps (i.e. actual number of records in NetCDF terminology (?)) > before transforming to binary format via ncgen. > > I think the work-around will fix the source of my problem which came up when > using the utility 'ncpdq' of the NCO package (NetCDF Operators) for the > "FLOAT-to-SHORT"-compression (or more precise: data type conversion / > transformation) of NetCDF data files using floating point types FLOAT or > DOUBLE. > (NCO home page:<http://nco.sourceforge.net/>) > > Best regards, > > Patrick Rix. > > > > -----UrsprÃngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Unidata netCDF Support [mailto:address@hidden > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 12. 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