With the exception of some of the processing examples the content of this web site has been duplicated under the Community Climate System Model Support Network which also includes graphical tutorials, file handling techniques, model diagnostics, and much more. We recommend you use the Network for your NCL reference. The CCM file is Cray COS blocked. The function getvaratts is used to get the attributes of the input file. The combined NCL functions all and ismissing are used to test if the input file had any attributes.
Any file attributes are then copied.
The function getfilevarnames extracts all variable names out of the CCM file. The function dimsizes determines the number of variable names. A do loop over all variables adding them to the netCDF file. Supported formats are those that are read using addfile . It is highly recommended that the public domain tool called ccm2nc be used to efficiently create netCDF files from files in CCM History Tape format.