I found there has been some discussion about having a variable
attribute "_Unsigned" that would allow for unsigned byte data to be
supported. Well, one of our people created a netCDF file with bytes
which he treated as "unsigned"....but when he read the file and
specified a (float) scale and offset, he got the "wrong"
answers...until he started treating the byte values as signed -- his
unhappiness is that IDL apparently treats bytes as unsigned, so he
cannot easily use his file in both (IDV is the other one) places. I
tried a few combinations in the toosUI, using NCML, but could not get
anything to work...
Is this supported? If so, is there some magic? (I'm running netCDF-java 4.1).
Thanks...
tom
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Tom Whittaker
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Space Science & Engineering Center (SSEC)
Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS)
1225 W. Dayton Street
Madison, WI 53706 USA
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