3.1 Creating New Files and Metadata, an Overview
To construct a netCDF file you need to:
create the file
- Specify the name, optionally the format: classic (the default) or
64bit-offset.
define metadata
- Specify the names and types of dimensions, data variables, and
attributes.
write data
- Write arrays of data from program variables to the netCDF file. Arrays
of data may be written all at once, or in subsets.
close the file
- Close the file to flush all buffers to the disk and free all resources
allocated for this file.