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  • Ferret Users Guide
    • Users Guide Index
    • Commands Reference
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Data Set Basics
    • 3. Variables & Expressions
    • 4. Grids & Regions
    • 5. Animations & Gif Images
    • 6. Customizing Plots
    • 7. Handling String Data Symbols
    • 8. Working with Special Data Sets
    • 9. Computing Environment
    • 10. Converting to NetCDF
    • 11. Writing External Functions
    • Glossary
    • Appendix A: Functions
    • Appendix B: PPLUS Guide
    • Appendix C: Ferret-Specific PPLUS Enhancements
  • Previous Release Notes
  • Tutorials and Demos
    • Ferret Tour
    • DSG files: Discrete Sampling Geometries Demo
    • Ferret sorting demo
    • Fast Fourier Transforms demo
    • Empirical Orthogonal Functions demo
    • Ferret objective analysis demo
    • Ferret Palette Demo
    • Map projections
    • Ferret polygon vector demo
    • Ferret Graticules demo
    • Ferret Polytube Demo
    • Ferret Polymark Demo
    • Ferret Constant-Array demo
    • Ferret land_detail demo
    • COADS Tour
    • Levitus Tour
    • Use OPeNDAP
    • Ferret binary read demo
  • PyFerret
    • PyFerret Downloads and Install ../../faq/ferret-faqs.html
    • What is PyFerret?
    • Why use PyFerret?
    • PyFerret for the Ferret user
    • PyFerret command syntax: quick-start notes
    • PyFerret for the Python user
    • Graphics in PyFerret ?
    • New Ferret functionality
    • PyFerret Python functions and constants
    • PyFerret Python objects and methods
    • Ferret external functions in Python
    • Ferret Fortran external functions
    • PyFerret metadata-and-data dictionaries
  • OPeNDAP
    • OPeNDAP usage in Ferret
    • Use OPeNDAP Demo
    • Test OPeNDAP

2. Data Set Basics

  • 2.1 OVERVIEW
  • 2.2 NETCDF DATA
    • NetCDF data and strides
    • NetCDF data attributes
    • NetCDF Data with the bounds attribute
    • Multi-file NetCDF data sets
    • Non-standard NetCDF data sets
    • NetCDF and non-standard calendars
    • NetCDF 4
  • 2.3 TMAP-FORMATTED DATA
  • 2.4 BINARY DATA
    • FORTRAN-structured binary files
      • Records of uniform length
      • Records of non-uniform length
      • Fortran binary files, variables on different grids.
    • Stream binary files
      • Simple stream files
      • Mixed stream files
      • Byte-swapped stream files
  • 2.5 ASCII DATA
    • Reading ASCII files
    • Reading "DELIMITED" data files
  • 2.6 TRICKS TO READING BINARY AND ASCII FILES
  • 2.7 ACCESS TO REMOTE DATA SETS WITH OPeNDAP
    • What is OPeNDAP ?
    • Accessing Remote Data Sets
    • Debugging Access to Remote OPeNDAP Data Sets
    • Security
    • Sharing Data Sets via OPeNDAP
    • OPeNDAP caching
    • Proxy servers