Re: isunlimited returns False on unlimited dimension in NetCDF4

From: David Brown <dbrown_at_nyahnyahspammersnyahnyah>
Date: Thu Nov 21 2013 - 14:14:31 MST

Thanks for the report Keith. We will address it as soon as possible.
 -dave

On Nov 21, 2013, at 2:12 PM, Keith Lindsay <klindsay@ucar.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have converted NetCDF3 model output to NetCDF4 with the command 'ncks
> -4 ...'.
>
> ncl's isunlimited function returns False on the the "time" dimension in
> the resulting file, despite output from running ncdump -h on the file
> indicating that the "time" dimension is unlimited.
>
> The following ncl commands demonstrate this behavior, with ncl 6.1.2, as
> well as with the nightly 6.2.0 build.
>
> case = "b40.20th.track1.1deg.005"
> wdir = "/glade/scratch/klindsay/"+case+"/ocn/hist/"
>
> fname = wdir+case+".pop.h2.1990-01-01.nc"
> f = addfile(fname, "r")
> print(isunlimited(f, "time")) ; prints True
>
> fname = wdir+case+".pop.h2.cdf4.1990-01-01.nc"
> f = addfile(fname, "r")
> print(isunlimited(f, "time")) ; prints False
>
> Could this be looked into please?
>
> Thanks,
> Keith Lindsay
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