Hi Jennifer,
> I would like to write out a netcdf file that has an unlimited dimension.
> The problem is that the resulting file does not contain values for that
> dimension -- they appear to be missing. I have attached below a modified
> version of press_temp_4D_wr.c, which was included in the library source
> code, and which creates a file with the following output from ncdump:
>
> netcdf pres_temp_4D {
> dimensions:
> level = 2 ;
> latitude = 6 ;
> longitude = 12 ;
> time = UNLIMITED ; // (2 currently)
> variables:
> float longitude(longitude) ;
> longitude:units = "degrees_east" ;
> float latitude(latitude) ;
> latitude:units = "degrees_north" ;
> float level(level) ;
> float time(time) ;
> float pressure(time, level, latitude, longitude) ;
> pressure:units = "hPa" ;
> float temperature(time, level, latitude, longitude) ;
> temperature:units = "celsius" ;
> data:
>
> longitude = -125, -120, -115, -110, -105, -100, -95, -90, -85, -80, -75, -70 ;
>
> latitude = 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50 ;
>
> level = 1, 6 ;
>
> time = _, _ ;
> }
>
>
> How can I get it to write out the defined values for the time axis
> instead of "time = _, _ ;" ?
>
> It will work if I change this:
>
> nc_def_dim(ncid, REC_NAME, NC_UNLIMITED, &rec_dimid)
> to
> nc_def_dim(ncid, REC_NAME, NREC, &rec_dimid)
>
> But then the dimension is no longer a record dimension.
>
> --Jennifer
I suspect you are trying to write the time dimension with nc_put_var, rather
than nc_put_vara().
See this note from the nc_put_var() documentation for why nc_put_var() won't
work as expected
until some record data has already been written to the file:
Take care when using this function with record variables (variables
that use the NC_UNLIMITED dimension). If you try to write all the
values of a record variable into a netCDF file that has no record
data yet (hence has 0 records), nothing will be written. Similarly,
if you try to write all the values of a record variable but there
are more records in the file than you assume, more in-memory data
will be accessed than you supply, which may result in a segmentation
violation. To avoid such problems, it is better to use the
nc_put_vara interfaces for variables that use the NC_UNLIMITED
dimension.
--Russ
Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program
address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu
Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: AKU-355464
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed
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