Re: [netcdfgroup] netcdfgroup Digest, Vol 328, Issue 1

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• Subject: Re: [netcdfgroup] netcdfgroup Digest, Vol 328, Issue 1
• From: "Charlie Zender" <zender@xxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 23:21:44 -0800

> Today's Topics:
>
>    1. delete a dimension using ncks (Fuyu Li)

ncks cannot change the rank of any variables,
thus it cannot be used to delete a dimension,
not even a degenerate dimension.
as you state, the rank reduction operator ncwa
will do this. ncap2 can also be used to remove
degenerate dimensions.

cz
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Charlie Zender, Department of Earth System Science
University of California, Irvine (949) 891-2429 :)