Hi Jose, > it seems a problem in ncdump since doing "h5dump file.nc" we can see > that it has been correctly saved as U16 with value 65535: > > ATTRIBUTE "valid_max" { > DATATYPE H5T_STD_U16LE > DATASPACE SIMPLE { ( 1 ) / ( 1 ) } > DATA { > (0): 65535 > } > } > > I hope it helps. Yes, thanks, we have duplicated the error here and entered it in our bug tracker: https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/jira/browse/NCF-82 where you can follow the status of the fix, which will be available soon in a snapshot and in the next actual release. Thanks again for reporting the bug. --Russ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: IYG-852497 Department: Support netCDF Priority: Normal Status: Closed