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Re: 19980529: splitting netCDF files into smaller chunks?

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  • Subject: Re: 19980529: splitting netCDF files into smaller chunks?
  • Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 13:50:54 -0600
>To: address@hidden
>From: Joseph VanAndel <address@hidden>
>Subject: splitting netCDF files into smaller chunks?
>Organization: .
>Keywords: 199805291744.LAA08998

Joe,

> Do you know of any utility that splits netCDF files into smaller chunks?
> 
> I've generated some 60+MB time series files that I'm trying to browse 
> in MATLAB, which loads the entire file at once.   This tends to cause 
> crashes, or severe slowdowns from paging.  So, I'd like to split the 
> large files, but not have to write my own code to do it.

Charlie Zender's NCO utility ncks claims to be able to do this, though I
haven't used it:

 http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/cms/nco

--Russ