CDL for Compound Types

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15.2 CDL for Compound Types

The CDL "types:" section is for user-defined types, including compound types

Example CDL for compound types: compounds Show popup

Potential uses for compound types include:

Representing vector quantities like velocities
Modeling relational database tuples
Representing objects with components
Bundling multiple in situ observations together (profiles, soundings)
Representing C structures in a portable form

Example of a nested compound type:

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2012 Unidata NetCDF Workshop > Utilities for NetCDF-4