Section: 4.4 Variable Methods

4.4 Variable Methods

Things you can do with a netCDF variable include getting information about it, putting data values into it, and getting data values out of it.

In the netCDF C-based interfaces, operations on variables include:

Create a variable, given its name, data type, and shape.
Get a variable from its name.
Get a variable's name, data type, shape, or number of attributes.
Put/get all data values into/from a variable.
Put/get a single data value into/from a variable, given the indices and value.
Put/get an array of values into/from a variable, given corner indices, edge lengths, and a block of values.
Put/get a sub-sampled array-section of values into/from a variable, given corner indices, edge lengths, stride vector, and a block of values.
Put/get a mapped array-section of values into/from a variable, given corner indices, edge lengths, stride vector, index mapping vector, and a block of values.
Rename a variable.

The netCDF Java interface supports some additional operations on variables including array section operations.