20000623: comments in netCDF files.

Bennett,

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> From: "Bennett, David A" <address@hidden>
> Subject: f90 netcdf
> Organization: UCAR/Unidata
> Keywords: 200006221445.e5MEjST21063

In the above message, you wrote:

> I was wondering if someone could give me a hint on the syntax for creating
> comments in a NetCDF file that would be visible when ncdump is invoked?
> If I have overlooked this information in the documentation, please let me
> know.
> 
> Thanks...
> 
> Dave 
> 
> 
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> David A. Bennett          mailto:address@hidden
> 
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> Center for Remote Environmental Sensing Technology
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The obvious way to do this would be to put the commentary into a global
attribute -- in CDL format, something like the following:

    netcdf {
        ...
        variables:
            :commentary =
"This is a two-line comment on the contents of this netCDF dataset, 
which is contained in a global variable.";
        ...
    }

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