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Goal: Learn how get data in CDAT.

There are multiple ways to retrieve data for self describing data file types.

All the data

You can get all of it, omitting dimensions are retrieving entire variable with the name 'var'

import cdms
f = cdms.open('sample.nc')
s = f(‘var’)

Specific dimension

You can specify dimension type and values

s = f(‘var’, time=(time1,time2))

Specific dimension names and values 

s = f(‘var’,dimname1=(val1,val2))

s = f(‘var’,time=slice(indice1,indice2,step))

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