Re: "time" as a variable and not a dimension

Hi John...

Thanks for the tips.  I will explore this with the scientist here and
let you know if this meets her needs.

I hear you all got another dose of Winter today!  Guess I got outta
town just in time ;-)

tom

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 6:47 PM, John Caron <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 4/14/2011 9:57 AM, Tom Whittaker wrote:
>>
>> Hi John...
>>
>> Good to see you this week!  Sorry we didn't get of a chance to talk,
>> but I hope things are going well.
>>
>> We keep running into a situation that I'm not sure what the best
>> strategy is for handling:  files (netCDF and HDF that I'm aware of),
>> have shapes for parameters like "x,y"...but there is also a "time"
>> variable in the file.
>
> not really sure what you mean - do you mean theres NOT a time variable ?
>
>> Is it possible to do an NcML aggregation of a
>> group of these files and have a "time dimension" made up?  Much like
>> what I have done already with the "dimName" aggregation attribute?
>
> on can use a joinNew aggregation and assign the time coordinate in several
> ways, see:
>
> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/ncml/v2.2/Aggregation.html#joinNew
>
>> Any ideas and thoughts would be really appreciated!!
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> tom
>>
> let me know if that helps!
>
>



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