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

[Martin Losch]

I agree, that's one of the reasons, why I would like to have netcdf  
pickups with seaice, so if it is not extra work for you, if things  
change a little in the future (that is, 2 timelevels get dropped),  
then please go ahead.  (o:
Martin
On Mar 20, 2006, at 11:26 PM, Ed Hill wrote:

> 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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