Steve, You are a GREAT help!!! Thank you very much. I've taken the code that you provided in your last email and am now using it to process the StageIII precip data from Feb'99 for the ABRFC. I then turn around and write it into a GEMPAK gridded file. I'm sure that as I use NetCDF more in the future, I'll get to know how to use it better (maybe even as well as one can with GEMPAK!). Again, thanks. Brett