[ncl-talk] reading in netCDF4Classic data where time is UNLIMITED but not leading dimension

[Mark.Collier at csiro.au]

Hi

I have a set of netCDF files that I would like to process using the addfiles function, however, when time is UNLIMITED but not the leading dimension NCL wants to create a data object with a concatenated leading dimension. I have tried various setfileoption approaches without success. Of course I could rewrite the data with time first, but I am sharing the data with someone who needs it written this way.

I’m using ncl/6.3.0 and
uname -a 
Linux raijin4 2.6.32-573.12.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Dec 15 21:19:08 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

A ncdump on the first input file gives:

netcdf ocean_daily_sst_070101-070112_e1-5 {
dimensions:
        time = UNLIMITED ; // (365 currently)
        yt_ocean = 300 ;
        xt_ocean = 360 ;
        ensemble = 5 ;
        nv = 2 ;
variables:
        float sst(ensemble, time, yt_ocean, xt_ocean) ;

...

Thanks for any advice/solutions,
Mark.