>If I want to write these city names to an nc file
>and call it site(0:2), is this is best way?
>Unfortunately, it saves the names as
>2d, site(city #, letter #).
>
>Mike
>
>
>begin
>city=(/"Madison","Albany","New Orleans"/)
>site=stringtochar(city)
>out=addfile("city.nc","c")
>out->site=site
>end
>_______________________________________________
NCL allows string variables.
Unfortunately, netCDF3 does not.
Hence, they must be written as character variables.
The above is the correct approach.
Note: AFAIK, netCDF4 will allow a string data type
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/netcdf-4/
regards
D
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