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It is not necessary to know about the whole netCDF interface to make use of the netCDF library. If you are creating a netCDF file, only a handful of routines are required to define the necessary dimensions, variables, and attributes, and to write the data to the netCDF file. Similarly, if you are writing software to access data stored in a particular netCDF object, only a small subset of the netCDF library is required to open the netCDF file and access the data. Only authors of generic applications that access arbitrary netCDF files and write out transformed netCDF files need to be familiar with the whole netCDF library. In this chapter we provide templates of common sequences of netCDF subroutine calls needed for common uses. Full argument lists for the procedures and subroutines are described in later chapters.
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