[ncl-talk] Attributes

[Dennis Shea]

Please read the documentation at (say):
    http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Manuals/

Mini-Language Manual
or the
DKRZ Tutorial

Look at the @ for attribute
==============================
   f = addfile("uv300.nc","r")
   TITLE = f at title
or
   title  = f at title
or
   foo = f at title

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netcdf uv300 {
dimensions:
        lat = 64 ;
        lon = 128 ;
        time = 2 ;
variables:
        float lat(lat) ;
                lat:short_name = "lat" ;
                lat:long_name = "latitude" ;
                lat:units = "degrees_north" ;
        float lon(lon) ;
                lon:units = "degrees_east" ;
                lon:long_name = "longitude" ;
                lon:short_name = "lon" ;
        float gw(lat) ;
                gw:long_name = "gaussian weights" ;
                gw:short_name = "gws" ;
                gw:units = "dimensionless" ;
        int time(time) ;
                time:long_name = "Month of Year" ;
                time:short_name = "Mo" ;
                time:units = "month" ;
        float U(time, lat, lon) ;
                U:_FillValue = -999.f ;
                U:long_name = "Zonal Wind" ;
                U:short_name = "U" ;
                U:units = "m/s" ;
        float V(time, lat, lon) ;
                V:_FillValue = -999.f ;
                V:long_name = "Meridional Wind" ;
                V:short_name = "V" ;
                V:units = "m/s" ;

// global attributes:
                :title = "UV300: January and July" ;
                :source = "Climate Analysis Section, NCAR" ;
                :history = "Dataset uv300.hs from EZPLOT demo dataset" ;
                :Conventions = "None" ;
                :creation_date = "Mon Mar 29 09:24:57 MST 1999" ;
                :references = "\n",
                        "EZPLOT for Publication Quality Plots\n",
                        "Christian Guillemot\n",
                        "NCAR-TN 414   1995\n",
                        "http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/cas/ezplot/" ;

On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 8:59 PM, Muhammad Omer Mughal <
m.mughal1 at postgrad.curtin.edu.au> wrote:

> Hi
>
>
> This example pulls the global attributes off a file and prints out their
> values:
>
>   f = addfile("$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/data/cdf/uv300.nc","r")
>
>   file_atts = getvaratts(f)
>
>   print(file_atts)
>
>   if(.not.any(ismissing(file_atts))) then
>     do i=0,dimsizes(file_atts)-1
>       print("Attribute " + file_atts(i) + " = " + f@$file_atts(i)$)
>    end do
>   end if
>
> How can one pull out a specific attribute from the file f  and use it ?
>
>
>
>
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