[netCDF #NRE-269426]: ncdump -x with netCDF4 files

Meg,

> Thanks for your responses to my email.
> 
> When I ran the ncdump -k on one of our netCDF4 files, the response was just
> "netCDF-4." Does this mean it's the enhanced model, and it would say
> "classic" otherwise? Or is it the other way around?

It's the other way around.  The outputs from ncdump -k are one of these
four strings:
 
  classic
  64-bit offset
  netCDF-4
  netCDF-4 classic model

The "-x" option works to specify NcML output for all but the third of
those format variants, "netCDF-4".

> I will pass on the information about the java netCDF library to the NOAA
> people who run our CLASS archive. They were the ones who were originally
> asking about this, and they need to develop code to extract the NcML from
> netCDF4 files. So this may be very useful for them.

--Russ

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> >
> > Margaret Tilton - NOAA Affiliate,
> >
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> >     Ticket ID: NRE-269426
> >     Subject: ncdump -x with netCDF4 files
> >     Department: Support netCDF
> >     Priority: Normal
> >     Status: Open
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> --
> Margaret Tilton
> Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at
> University of Colorado at Boulder and
> NOAA National Geophysical Data Center, Solar and Terrestrial Physics
> Division
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> 
Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
address@hidden                      http://www.unidata.ucar.edu



Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: NRE-269426
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed