Re: isunlimited returns False on unlimited dimension in NetCDF4

From: Wei Huang <huangwei_at_nyahnyahspammersnyahnyah>
Date: Thu Nov 21 2013 - 19:43:56 MST

Keith,

We have fixed the problem and checked the change in.
Check with the nightly built.
Or check with my ncl executable (as from last email).

As always, please let us know if there is any new issues.

Thanks,

Wei

huangwei@ucar.edu
VETS/CISL
National Center for Atmospheric Research
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On Nov 21, 2013, at 2:14 PM, David Brown <dbrown@ucar.edu> wrote:

> 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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