I havent done much with Julia yet so cant provide more info at this time. ncinfo and ncread fails when the time axis is of type 'long'.
----------------------Terminal--------------------------- julia> t=NetCDF.ncread("/home/bhupendra/temp/temp-test/test.nc", "time") ERROR: NetCDF type currently not supported, please file an issue on https://github.com/meggart/NetCDF.jl in readvar at /home/bhupendra/.julia/v0.3/NetCDF/src/NetCDF.jl:126 in readvar at /home/bhupendra/.julia/v0.3/NetCDF/src/NetCDF.jl:107 in ncread at /home/bhupendra/.julia/v0.3/NetCDF/src/NetCDF.jl:379 ---------------------------------------- ----------------------Terminal-------------------------------- julia> NetCDF.ncinfo("/home/bhupendra/temp/temp-test/test.nc") ##### NetCDF File ##### /home/bhupendra/temp/temp-test/test.nc ##### Dimensions ##### Name Length ------------------------------- latitude 256 time 4716 longitude 256 ##### Variables ##### Name Type Dimensions --------------------------------------------------------------- latitude FLOAT latitude, timeError showing value of type NcFile: ERROR: key not found: 10 in getindex at dict.jl:617 in show at /home/bhupendra/.julia/v0.3/NetCDF/src/NetCDF.jl:505 in anonymous at show.jl:1159 in with_output_limit at ./show.jl:1136 in showlimited at show.jl:1158 in writemime at replutil.jl:2 in display at REPL.jl:117 in display at REPL.jl:120 in display at multimedia.jl:149 in print_response at REPL.jl:139 in print_response at REPL.jl:124 in anonymous at REPL.jl:586 in run_interface at ./LineEdit.jl:1379 in run_frontend at ./REPL.jl:818 :_Documentation = "http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs/cxx4/index.html" ; in run_repl at ./REPL.jl:169 in _start at ./client.jl:400 julia> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *ncdump -h output looks like this *ncdump -h /home/bhupendra/temp/temp-test/test.nc netcdf test { dimensions: latitude = 256 ; longitude = 256 ; time = UNLIMITED ; // (4716 currently) variables: float latitude(latitude) ; latitude:units = "degrees_north" ; float longitude(longitude) ; longitude:units = "degrees_east" ; int64 time(time) ; time:units = "seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC" ; float rain(time, latitude, longitude) ; rain:units = "mm/hr" ; rain:_FillValue = -999.f ; rain:_compression = "Zlib with HDF-5" ; // global attributes: :_libNCIO = "developed by Bhupendra Raut (www.baraut.info) at Monash Weather and Climate Group." ; :_Documentation = "http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs/cxx4/index.html" ; :_created = "Wed May 13 16:26:12 2015\n" ; Cheers, RB