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20000718: one variable in two places

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  • Subject: 20000718: one variable in two places
  • Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 08:40:52 -0600
Yongzuo,

> Keywords: 200007172157.e6HLvAT15352
> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 16:48:09 -0500 (CDT)
> From: address@hidden (Yongzuo Li)
> Message-Id: <address@hidden>

In the above message, you wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Can I write down one variable in two places
> ?
> 
> It looks like
> 
> TEMP
HEIGHT
> TEMP
> HEIGHT
> RAIN
> ..
> In documentation one variable has one ID and one "location"
> Yongzuo

I'm not sure what you're asking.

The values of each netCDF variable will occur only once in a netCDF
dataset.  If you want to duplicate those values, then you'll have to
create two netCDF variables (which means that the names will have to
differ).

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