Saving 4D data slicewise

[nils rix <nrix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Ferreteers,
I'm trying to do a rather memory intensive calculation and to be 
able to do it at all I would like to save intermediate results slicewise 
to a file.
Unfortunately the nature of the problem is such that a slice must be defined 
along one of the first two axes (i or j-index say!!!). Does anyone know if 
it is possible to in principle do something like 
 
let var=u*v  ! on some grid where u,v are 4 dimensional: u(i,j,k,l)
repeat/i=1:10 (save/file=var.cdf/append/i=`i` var[i=`i`])   ! not /l=`l`

I know it works for the time axis, but that's not what I need.
Does netcdf allow to increase any dimension of a variable in an existing 
file?

Cheers Nils 

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Nils H. Rix
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