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Re: ferret: dimension naming? - nevermind!



ignore this question!  I just had the grand realization that the names are
case sensitive, even though ferret displays everything in all CAPS.

Sorry!


On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Gene-Hua Crystal Ng wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is dimension name not the same as axis name?  I am trying to create a
> netCDF file in which I have dimensions "lon", "lat", and "time".  I
> thought I was doing this by specifying axes using:
>
> yes? def axis/x=1:1:1 lon
> yes? def axis/y=1:1:1 lat
> yes? def axis/t=1:100:1 time
>
> and then specifying my grids with these, etc....
>
> However, I then get an error from nco_inq_dimid() claiming that there does
> not exist any dimension named 'lon', etc in my file.  But when I look at
> my data with ferret, it seems that my x, y, and t axes are indeed named
> 'lon', 'lat', and 'time', respectively.  Is there a distinction between
> dimension and axis names?  If so, how do I specify the dimension names??
>
> Thanks,
> Crystal
>

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