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Goal: Learn how to read and write data in CDAT.

• Variable types in CDAT.
• The data file types that CDAT can read.
• Opening a file.
• Opening a dataset (multiple files).
  
• Inquiries into a file - leaning about variables and their dimensions.
• Simple geting data from a file.
• Getting data with specific time bounds.
• Extracting data at a specific latitude/longitude, say 50N, 120W.
• Extracting data at latitude/longitude point, reducing spurious dimentions.
  
• Other keywords to data retrieval.
• Getting data - and the mysterious "third argument" explanation. 
• Reading ASCII data.
• Reading binary data.
• Writing data to NetCDF in CDAT (extract from one file and write to another).
• Printing to an ASCII file.
  
• Concatenating NetCDF files .
• Virtually concatenating NetCDF files.
  
• Saving an image in CDAT.
• Looping through files -- Getting Started Tutorials
  

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