Re: [netcdfgroup] Diff between record and non-record data

• To: Chris Barker <chris.barker@xxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: [netcdfgroup] Diff between record and non-record data
• From: Stephan Hoyer <shoyer@xxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 17:42:54 -0700

On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Chris Barker <chris.barker@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate <
> dave.allured@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I appreciate your interest in the details.  Netcdf-3 does not include
>> support for "jagged arrays", so all data storage is in rectangular prisms.
>> However, there is some support for jagged arrays in netcdf-4.
>>
>
> Is there? could you point me to some docs about that?
>

You might also be interested in the docs for the netCDF4-python interface:
http://unidata.github.io/netcdf4-python/

(scroll down to section 10, "Variable-length (vlen) data types.")

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