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Doug- The reason those values are there is probably because the time dimension has size 23 but your original cdl only provided 20 values. So, the extra 3 are fill values. Not sure why ncdump did not report them as fills, probably because the base type (observation) is a compound. [Russ?] =Dennis Heimbigner Unidata Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: UDB-426902 Department: Support netCDF Priority: Critical Status: Open