Re: [ferret_users] How to change Variable Datatype

[Jaison Kurian <jaison@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Murali,
           The new version of Ferret (6.00) does have this capability.
But there are few minor bugs with this release, expected to be fixed
soon.

  To know more about Ferret 6.00 and the data type capabilities, see

http://ferret.pmel.noaa.gov/Ferret/Documentation/Release_Notes/v600.html#output_type

Regards,

Jaison

On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Murali Krishna wrote:

> Dear Users,
> 
> How to change the variable Datatype from "DOUBLE" to "FLOAT". Is there any
> method to do this in ferret??... i am providing my .cdf file header for ur
> attention... please suggest me some method to do this .
> 
> netcdf tauxd_son {
> dimensions:
>         X = 720 ;
>         Y = 360 ;
>         T1DAY = UNLIMITED ; // (91 currently)
> variables:
>         double X(X) ;
>                 X:units = "degrees_east" ;
>                 X:modulo = 360. ;
>                 X:point_spacing = "even" ;
>                 X:axis = "X" ;
>         double Y(Y) ;
>                 Y:units = "degrees_north" ;
>                 Y:point_spacing = "even" ;
>                 Y:axis = "Y" ;
>         double T1DAY(T1DAY) ;                                /* can we
> replace "double" with "float"
>                 T1DAY:units = "DAYS" ;
>                 T1DAY:axis = "T" ;
>         float TAUXD(T1DAY, Y, X) ;
>                 TAUXD:missing_value = -1.e+10f ;
>                 TAUXD:_FillValue = -1.e+10f ;
>                 TAUXD:long_name = "MY_30DY_VAR[GT=T1DAY@LIN]" ;
>                 TAUXD:history = "From taux" ;
> 
> 
> Thanks in Advance..
> Murali Krishna
>