getting ranges correct in concatenated files

I'm trying to create a netCDF file with a year of data, using ncrcat on a
set of individual files for the 8-day periods in that year. ncrcat
behaves just as I expect, resulting in variables that are concatenated
along the record dimension. I'm using no switches to ncrcat:

% ncrcat -O outfile_name infile_list

However, I have a requirement to include the attribute @valid_range for
each of the variables in my file, and I can tell from experimentation and
from the ncrcat documentation that the output @valid_range for each
variable is just set to whatever was in the first file input to ncrcat.
So it doesn't really reflect the full range of values in the concatenated
file.

Can anyone suggest how I could make the output @valid_range on the
variables actually reflect the range of values of the concatenated
variable contents?

Thank you,
Mary Jo Brodzik

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Mary Jo Brodzik, Lead Scientific Programmer, 303-492-8263
NSIDC/CIRES, Univ. of Colo. at Boulder, 449 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0449
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