Re: disk space followup

[Steve Hankin <hankin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Brent,

Only "float" output of netCDF data  is available from Ferret V5.22. Control
over the data type of output files, as well as greater control over netCDF
attributes, will be included in a future Ferret release.

    - steve


Brent A McDaniel wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> It seems that I'm having a similar problem to one discussed in the mailing
> list archives (subject: Disk Space from: Muyin Wang).  The data I'm
> working with is ncep reanalysis which saves the variable as type short.  I
> read the variable into ferret, do some manipulation, and go to write it
> out as a netcdf file and ferret writes it as a float so the file doubles
> in size.  From the manual is says that if /format= is specified then the
> /precision= statement is ignored.  Is there a workaround so that we can
> write data to a netcdf file as type short or can this option be added to
> future versions of Ferret?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Brent
>
> --
> Brent A. McDaniel
>
> Dept of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
> Georgia Institute of Technology
> Atlanta, Ga.  USA

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