<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418220261327_7269">Dear NCL group,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418220261327_7508" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418220261327_7509" dir="ltr">In the below is about the metadata of a netCDF file, in which each of the variables has the dimension info such as "bnds = 2". Is it any possible in NCL scripts that some dimension info could be omitted such as "skip" and "ncl5", so the variable "rotated_pole" would be as: ("ncl5" and "skip" won't show up)<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418220261327_7967" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418220261327_7968" dir="ltr"> char rotated_pole ;<br style="" class=""> rotated_pole:grid_mapping_name = "rotated_latitude_longitude" ;<br style="" class=""> rotated_pole:grid_north_pole_latitude = 90.f ;<br style="" class=""> rotated_pole:grid_north_pole_longitude = -180.f ;</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418220261327_7510" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418220261327_7511" dir="ltr">Thanks very much in advance!<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418220261327_8791" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418220261327_8792" dir="ltr">Best regards,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418220261327_8483" dir="ltr">Mark<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418220261327_7512" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418220261327_7513" dir="ltr">===netCDF metadata generated by NCL===<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418220261327_7514">dimensions:<br style="" class=""> time = UNLIMITED ; // (12 currently)<br style="" class=""> rlon = 213 ;<br style="" class=""> rlat = 220 ;<br style="" class=""> skip = 1 ;<br style="" class=""> bnds = 2 ;<br style="" class=""> ncl5 = 1 ;<br style="" class="">variables:<br style="" class=""> double time(time) ;<br style="" class=""> time:long_name = "time" ;<br style="" class=""> time:standard_name = "time" ;<br style="" class=""> time:units = "days since 1949-12-01 00:00:00" ;<br style="" class=""> time:calendar = "standard" ;<br style="" class=""> time:axis = "T" ;<br style="" class=""> time:bounds = "time_bnds" ;<br style="" class=""> double rlon(rlon) ;<br style="" class=""> rlon:long_name = "longitude in rotated pole grid" ;<br style="" class=""> rlon:standard_name = "grid_longitude" ;<br style="" class=""> rlon:units = "degrees" ;<br style="" class=""> rlon:axis = "X" ;<br style="" class=""> double rlat(rlat) ;<br style="" class=""> rlat:long_name = "latitude in rotated pole grid" ;<br style="" class=""> rlat:standard_name = "grid_latitude" ;<br style="" class=""> rlat:units = "degrees" ;<br style="" class=""> rlat:axis = "Y" ;<br style="" class=""> char rotated_pole(skip) ;<br style="" class=""> rotated_pole:grid_mapping_name = "rotated_latitude_longitude" ;<br style="" class=""> rotated_pole:grid_north_pole_latitude = 90.f ;<br style="" class=""> rotated_pole:grid_north_pole_longitude = -180.f ;<br style="" class=""> float tas(time, rlat, rlon) ;<br style="" class=""> tas:long_name = "Near-Surface Air Temperature" ;<br style="" class=""> tas:standard_name = "air_temperature" ;<br style="" class=""> tas:units = "K" ;<br style="" class=""> tas:cell_methods = "time: mean" ;<br style="" class=""> tas:_FillValue = 1.e+20f ;<br style="" class=""> tas:missing_value = 1.e+20f ;<br style="" class=""> tas:coordinates = "lon lat height" ;<br style="" class=""> double time_bnds(time, bnds) ;<br style="" class=""> double height(ncl5) ;<br style="" class=""> height:long_name = "height" ;<br style="" class=""> height:standard_name = "height" ;<br style="" class=""> height:units = "m" ;<br style="" class=""> height:positive = "up" ;<br style="" class=""> height:axis = "Z" ;<br style="" class=""> double lon(rlat, rlon) ;<br style="" class=""> lon:long_name = "longitude" ;<br style="" class=""> lon:standard_name = "longitude" ;<br style="" class=""> lon:units = "degrees_east" ;<br style="" class=""> double lat(rlat, rlon) ;<br style="" class=""> lat:long_name = "latitude" ;<br style="" class=""> lat:standard_name = "latitude" ;<br style="" class=""> lat:units = "degrees_north" ;<br style="" class=""><br></div><div style="" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418220261327_7269"><br style="" class=""></div></div></body></html>