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Ferret: A question about recognizing dimentions.



Dear Ferreters,
 
I am using Fortran to write a netCDF file and Ferret to read and plot it. When I create a file with variable which has Y, Z, T coordinates, it works well.
 
name     title                             I         J         K         L
TEMP                                      ...       1:625     1:30      1:12
 
But if the variable has X, Z, T coordinates, a problem occurs.
 
name     title                             I         J         K         L
TEMP                                      1:721     1:30      ...       1:12
 
It was recognized as X, Y, T.
 
The netCDF file looks well in ncdump.
 
dimensions:
        time = 12 ;
        layer = 30 ;
        lon = 721 ;
variables:
        float lon(lon) ;
                lon:units = "degree_east" ;
        float temp(time, layer, lon) ;
                temp:missing_value = 1.70141e+038f ;
                temp:units = "Degree" ;
data:
...
 
I would appreciate very much if you can tell me how Ferret recognize the dimensions, and also to solve this problem. Should I just define all 4-dimensions with one of them having only one constant value? That seems a bit stupid.
 
Lots of thanks,
Jian
 
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Jian Ma
 
M. S. in Physical Oceanography
The First Institute of Oceanography
State Oceanic Administration
P. R. China
 
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