# SD1.2.5.1.1.7-B NetCDF IDL API
# Background

IDL (Interactive Data Language) is a commercial scientific computing environment that combines mathematics, advanced data visualization, scientific graphics, and a graphical user interface toolkit to analyze and visualize scientific data.
IDL supports data in NetCDF format.

# Aim

  * To use IDL for working with NetCDF data.

# Outcomes

  * Write a two-dimensional array of sample data and read data from this file.
  * Write some variables with units attributes and coordinate dimensions and read data variables and attributes from this file.
  * Write some four-dimensional variables using a record dimension and read from the variables from this file.

# Subskills