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

[David Brown]

Hi Mark,
It's true that NCL can only concatenate on the leftmost dimension
currently. It would definitely requirement some development work to
implement concatenation on an interior dimension. I can definitely see
the use case for it though.
 -dave


On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 8:15 PM,  <Mark.Collier at csiro.au> wrote:
> 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.
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