[ferret_users] 64-bit netCDF support

["Gustafson, William I" <william.gustafson@xxxxxxx>]

Title: 64-bit netCDF support

Hi,

Is there any way to get Ferret to read netCDF files that use the newer 64-bit format? I’m running into these files more lately and, as far as I can tell, they currently cannot be read by Ferret. Some of the more recent super computers, e.g. Jaguar at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, default to the 64-bit format. Also, a change (scheduled to be committed to the WRF repository this week) to the WRF atmospheric model will start producing these files because large domain users have been running into barriers with the older 32-bit format (I’m one of these users :-) ).

If there is no work around, I would like to request that this feature be added in one of the near term Ferret releases.

-Bill

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William I. Gustafson Jr., Ph.D.
Scientist
ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE AND GLOBAL CHANGE DIVISION
 
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
P.O. 999, MSIN K9-30
Richland, WA  99352
Tel: 509-372-6110
William.Gustafson@xxxxxxx
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