addDimension

Adds a both a new dimension and its associated coordinate variable to the NetCDF file.

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Declaration

 [dimension,variable] = addDimension(name,data,properties,dimLength)

Parameters

• name string with the name of the dimension
• data array of values along that dimension, or empty
• properties containers.Map containing any key-value pairs to be associated with the dimension.
• dimLength (optional) length of the dimension

Returns

• dimension a NetCDFDimension object with the newly create dimension
• variable a NetCDFVariable object with the associated coordinate variable

Discussion

Usage

  x = linspace(0,10,11);
  ncfile.addDimension('x',x,[]);