20000531: NetCDF definitions

Linda,

>Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 10:05:16 -0400
>From: "Mann, Linda" <address@hidden>
>Organization: Wyle Laboratories
>To: "'Steve Emmerson'" <address@hidden>
>Subject: RE: 20000530: NetCDF definitions 
>Keywords: 200005301359.e4UDxTT11409

In the above message, you wrote:

> Thanks for the reply.  The problem I have is the end user needs to be able
> to get the information by group name.  That's why I thought this format
> would work better.

The netCDF library won't help you get at the data by your group name.
For that, you'll have to implement a layer on top of the netCDF layer
that uses, for example, a hash table to convert a group name into netCDF
indexes.

> I am also trying to use another structure to store the
> data which is need by point number and group name.
> 
> ex.
>       struct {
>          int   point_number ;
>          int   run_number ;
>          int   test_number ;
>          int   data_id ;
>          char  group_name ;
>          float group_data[4096] ;
>       } 
> 
> Linda Mann

Regards,
Steve Emmerson   <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>