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Metview uses a netCDF format internally for the results of some computations (this format will be covered in the session Data Part 2). In particular, most of the previous Views Most of the Views described in this session (i.e. Cross Section, Vertical Profile, Average, Hovmøller and Thermo) do this, but their result the resulting data file is not available to the user. Therefore, each of these Views has a corresponding Data Module icon. If the intention is to simply plot the result, then the View icons are more useful. But to store the result data, the corresponding Data Module icon is required.
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