Ansley- I will take a look. In the meantime, do you know who is in charge of the ferret server. I want to see if I can get them to properly implement this requirement in the DAP2 spec. "... A Grid modified with a hyperslab operator MUST return another Grid, following the same rules as an Array. But if the projection clause specifies the elements of the Grid independently of one another— the target array, or one of the maps—then a Structure is returned containing only the specified variables..." =Dennis Heimbigner Unidata Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: QTC-832048 Department: Support netCDF Priority: Normal Status: Closed