Hi,
I don't know anything about how data in NetCDF files are organized, but
intuitively, I would think that, for a general 2D array, the data at
points [j,i] and [j,i+1] would be contiguous on disk. Is this right?
(i is the fastest-varying dimension)
I might also suppose that, for an array of size [nj,ni], that the data
at points [j,ni-1] and [j+1,0] would also be contiguous. Is this true?
If so, is there a method in Java-NetCDF that would allow me to read
these two points (and only these two points) in a single operation?
(Background: I'm trying to improve the performance of ncWMS by
optimising how data is read from disk. This seems to involve striking a
balance between the number of individual read operations and the size of
each read operation.)
Thanks,
Jon
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Environmental Systems Science Centre
University of Reading
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