Dennis Heimbigner

Ward- can you send me the contents of libnetcdf.settings when you see the MacOS fail?

May be fixed by PR https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2421

Is there anyway to figure out the genesis of this file: specifically what software wrote it?

I do not know for sure that the file is malformed at least according to the code. There is code in the posixio module that **may** (its hard to figure...

I can an experiment by using this command: nccopy 20020519_0600 20020519_0600_2 This should have produced an exact copy of the input file. And using ncdump to compare the metadata, it...

Russ rew pointed me to this netcdf FAQ entry: https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs/faq.html#Can-I-recover-data-from-a-netCDF-file-that-was-not-closed-properly This probably explains how this file came to be constructed: someone forgot to call nc_close() on it. The question is,...

The problem you face is that the file is being extended by either zeros or random data. How can you trust this? Is zero extension ok?

Note also that because of the layout of the unlimited dimension data, this extension will affect every variable that uses the unlimited dimension.

The metadata is ok in that file, but the data is incorrect in the sense that some number of the values of latitude (approx those with index 1890 - 1969)...

Are you sure? I thought I had libcurl disabled if no one needed it. But remember that libcurl is used by a number of features.