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Re: Reading part of a netcdf file? [message #86020 is a reply to message #86019]

Tue, 24 September 2013 09:40

David Fanning
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David Fanning writes:

> It *is* possible to read just a portion of a large data set from a
> netCDF file. See the GetVarData method in the NDCF_File object. See the
> COUNT, OFFSET, and STRIDE keywords. I can't advise sensibly without
> knowing more about the data, but I think it is possible to do what you
> want to do. You certainly don't want to read that data file all at once
> into the variable "a". ;-)

This article might be of interest to you, too:

http://www.idlcoyote.com/fileio_tips/readslab.html

Cheers,

David
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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/
Sepore ma de ni thue. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

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		Reading part of a netcdf file? By: rjp23 on Tue, 24 September 2013 08:26
		Re: Reading part of a netcdf file? By: David Fanning on Tue, 24 September 2013 09:06
		Re: Reading part of a netcdf file? By: rjp23 on Tue, 24 September 2013 09:11
		Re: Reading part of a netcdf file? By: David Fanning on Tue, 24 September 2013 09:31
		Re: Reading part of a netcdf file? By: David Fanning on Tue, 24 September 2013 09:40
		Re: Reading part of a netcdf file? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 24 September 2013 09:46
		Re: Reading part of a netcdf file? By: Michael Galloy on Tue, 24 September 2013 13:01

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