Guide to Supported ExtData Input Files

Introduction

This will be a guide on what ExtData expects to have in its files for inputs. Note that since the History component uses the same IO layer, this is also describes what sort of files you will get from History.

Horizontal Dimensions

Vertical Dimension

Rules for Variables

Each variable, that is something that is not part of the horizontal grid or vertical level metadata and variables specific for those must conform to the following

• Every variable must depend on the dimensions in this order: horizontal dimensions, vertical dimension (optional), time
• Note that only the vertical dimension is optional. All variables must depend on any dimensions associated with the horizontal and time. Time is not optional, if your dataset doesn't depend on time, just add it anyway. If not, ExtData is not reading it.
• Each variable must have a units attribute and a long_name attribute.