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We would like to use netCDF to keep track of the output of a LaGrangian Particle Data Model. In this application, we would need to keep track of the lat, lon, and height of each particle at each timestep. The kicker is that each timestep has a variable number of particles (most likely more particles as time goes on as they are being emitted from a source). It appears to me that I have two infinite dimensions here... time and particle count. How would I (or can I) setup a netCDF file to manage this type of data? Why not use more than one netCDF file? The first, with the unlimited dimension being time, would simply refer to the file containing the actual data for that timestep. The rest would be identically structured netCDF files with the unlimited dimension being the particle count. Skip (montanaro@xxxxxxxxxx)
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