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Tom Whittaker wrote:
Russ & John --Thanks! I was basing the structure of the new file from an "ncdump -h" of an existing one, which listed "long" for a few of the variables.
really? on a netcdf-3 file, using the C version of ncdump ?you can get a long value from a non-netcdf-3 file, using java version of ncdump.