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12.1 Parts of a File in Classic Format
A netCDF classic or 64-bit offset file is stored in three parts.

The three parts of a classic netCDF file are:

  1. The header, containing information about dimensions, attributes, and variables (the schema)
  2. The fixed-size data, containing data values for variables that don't have an unlimited dimension
  3. The record data, containing data values for variables that have an unlimited dimension

 

 

 


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