Routines for IDL NetCDF access.
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WRITING NETCDF FILES
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*  ncdf_quickwrite/
   
     Contains routines for writing NetCDF files from IDL namespace in a 
        minimum of commands.
   
     See the README file in that directory, but simple example is:

        ncfile = 'myfile.nc'
        ncfields = 'latitude[]; longitude[]; pressure[longitude,latitude]'
        @ncdf_quickwrite


READING NETCDF FILES
====================

*  ncdf_quickread/
   
     Contains routines for reading variables from NetCDF files into IDL
        namespace in a minimum of commands -- based on cdf2idl.
   
     See the README file in that directory, but simple example is:
   
           ncfile = 'myfile.nc'
           @ncdf_quickread


*  ncdf_read.pro

     Procedure which reads NetCDF file contents into a number of named arrays.

     e.g. ncdf_read,'myfile.nc',info,diminfo,varinfo,globalatts,varatts,data


*  ncdf_struct.pro
*  ncdf_struct_free.pro

     Function which returns a structure containing entire contents of a 
     specified NetCDF file.
     e.g.
            mystruct = ncdf_struct('myfile.nc')
            ...
            ncdf_struct_free(mystruct)


MISCELLANEOUS
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*  ncdf_listdims.pro
*  ncdf_listvars.pro

      Simple routines which returns arrays of dimension names and variable
      names in an opened NetCDF file.
      e.g.
         ncid=ncdf_open('myfile.nc')
         vars=ncdf_listvars(ncid)
         dims=ncdf_listdims(ncid)


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Contributed by Alan Iwi <A.M.Iwi@rl.ac.uk>
2 October 2003
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