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20010516: Modifying CIA database

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  • Subject: 20010516: Modifying CIA database
  • Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 16:05:56 -0600
Erick,

> To: address@hidden
> From: address@hidden
> Subject: Modifying CIA database
> Organization: UCAR/Unidata
> Keywords: 200105161729.f4GHTOp14723

The above message contained the following:

> Hi,
> 
> I want to correct some boundaries in a CIA (WDB) data bank stored in a
> NetCdf database.
> Is there an easy way to do this ?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Erick Nuwendam

I'm not aware of an "easy" way to do this.  I imagine the file is quite
large -- so using the "ncdump" utility is probably unreasonable.

You'll have to find a software package that allows editing of netCDF
datasets.  A list of such packages is available at

    http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/software.html

Good luck.

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