[MITgcm-devel] pickups: mdsio and mnc with unorthodox fields

[Ed Hill]

On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 23:02 +0100, Martin Losch wrote:
> Hi Ed,
> 
> the current version of seaice_pickup is working, so that's done  
> (implementing the MDSIO version), but there is this question of the  
> amount of information that has to in the pickup files. Maybe it's  
> best to wait until that's sorted out?

Well, one of the really neat things about netCDF is that, by naming the
variables, it doesn't matter what the ordering in the file looks like.
So, unlike MDSIO, you automatically get backwards compatibility if one
of the older time-steps gets dropped...

Ed

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