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Hi All, These additional hints to Russ' solution solve the problem without invoking an editor: >You can almost do this with the ncecat program, but it creates a >record dimension that you may not want. For example, if you run >> ncecat lev-1000-Time-0.nc lev-950-Time-0.nc ... lev-200-Time-0.nc Time-0.nc
Shell filename globbing also works fine here: ncecat lev-*-Time-0.nc Time-0.nc >(where I've used "..." to save typing), you get a file with the first >time and all 10 levels, but now have a record dimension of 10, where 1 >record is used for each level, something like: > > float var(record, Time, lev, Lon, Lat) ; > >with lev of size 1 and record of size 10, instead of and also a time of size 1. Perhaps the easiest NCO strategy is to average over the degenerate dimensions then renaming "record" to lev: ncwa -O -a Time,lev Time-0.nc Time-0.nc ncrename -d record,lev Time-0.nc Now you will have float var(lev, Lon, Lat) ; which is presumably what you want. Good luck, Charlie P.S. The correct place to post NCO questions is shown on nco.sf.net -- Charlie Zender, zender at uci dot edu, (949) 824-2987, Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine CA 92697-3100