Well, that's what I thought too but it didn't work when I tried it:On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Glenn Carver wrote:I am trying to work with netCDF files created from ECMWF ERA40 analyses. Unfortunately temperature has been given the name 'T' which clashes with the time axis variable 't' in Ferret.Hi Glenn, You can use special variable names like these if you enclose them in single quotes: yes? list 't' For more info see the User's Guide, Ch.3, Sec. 1.2.