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Re: packed data in NCO

To: netCDF Mailing Group <netcdfgroup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: packed data in NCO
From: Charlie Zender <zender@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 22:09:10 -0700

>>For what it's worth, recent versions of NCO (http://nco.sf.net)
>> support interpreting packed data to the following extent:
 
> i assume you are using the usual scale_factor and add_offset convention?

Yes, that's right. NCO will arithmetically process files packed
with scale_factor and add_offset, and will do so transparently to the
user. 

Charlie
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Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine CA 92697-3100