sdfopen filename <template #timesteps>
Opens a NetCDF or HDF-SDS format file that conforms to the COARDS conventions. The arguments and options are as follows:
filename
template
template
has a similar structure to the substitution template in a GrADS data descriptor file. See
Using Templates for details.
#timesteps
template
is invoked.
The #timesteps
is the sum of the timestep counts in all the
files to be examined, not the count in any one file.
template
is automatically accessed as the "time"
or "t" settings in GrADS are altered.
xdfopen
to open a non-COARDS-compliant
self-describing file.
uwnd.1989.nc
and uwnd.1990.nc
, you could
access them both as one GrADS data set by entering:
sdfopen /data/uwnd.1989.nc uwnd.%y4.nc 730