2011 Unidata NetCDF Workshop > Formats and Performance
15.1 Parts of a File in Classic Format
A netCDF classic or 64-bit offset file is stored in three parts.
- The header, containing information
about dimensions, attributes, and variables (the schema)
- The fixed-size data, containing
data values for variables that
don't have an unlimited dimension
- The record data, containing data
values for variables that have an unlimited dimension
2011 Unidata NetCDF Workshop > Formats and Performance