An example skeleton table containing rVariables and zVariables follows:
! Skeleton table for the "example2" CDF.
! Generated: Thursday, 17-Nov-1994 14:07:58
! CDF created/modified by CDF V2.4.10
! Skeleton table created by CDF V2.5.0
#header
CDF NAME: example2
DATA ENCODING: NETWORK
MAJORITY: ROW
FORMAT: SINGLE
! Variables G.Attributes V.Attributes Records Dims Sizes
! --------- ------------ ------------ ------- ---- -----
4 1 7 1 2 11 7
#GLOBALattributes
! Attribute Entry Data
! Name Number Type Value
! --------- ------ ---- -----
"TITLE" 1: CDF_CHAR { "Title for example2 CDF." } .
#VARIABLEattributes
"FIELDNAM"
"VALIDMIN"
"VALIDMAX"
"SCALEMIN"
"SCALEMAX"
"UNITS"
"FORMAT"
#variables
! Variable Data Number Record Dimension
! Name Type Elements Variance Variances
! -------- ---- -------- -------- ---------
"EPOCH" CDF_EPOCH 1 T F F
! Attribute Data
! Name Type Value
! -------- ---- -----
"FIELDNAM" CDF_CHAR { "Time since 0 A.D. " }
"VALIDMIN" CDF_EPOCH { 01-Jan-0000 00:00:00.000 }
"VALIDMAX" CDF_EPOCH { 01-Jan-2089 00:00:00.000 }
"SCALEMIN" CDF_EPOCH { 01-Apr-1986 07:00:00.000 }
"SCALEMAX" CDF_EPOCH { 01-Apr-1986 23:00:00.000 }
"UNITS" CDF_CHAR { "milliseconds (UT) " }
"FORMAT" CDF_CHAR { "E14.0 " } .
! Variable Data Number Record Dimension
! Name Type Elements Variance Variances
! -------- ---- -------- -------- ---------
"LONGITUD" CDF_REAL4 1 F T F
! Attribute Data
! Name Type Value
! -------- ---- -----
"FIELDNAM" CDF_CHAR { "Longitude variable " }
"VALIDMIN" CDF_REAL4 { 0.0 }
"VALIDMAX" CDF_REAL4 { 180.0 }
"SCALEMIN" CDF_REAL4 { -50.0 }
"SCALEMAX" CDF_REAL4 { 50.0 }
"UNITS" CDF_CHAR { "Degrees " }
"FORMAT" CDF_CHAR { "F8.3 " } .
[1,1] = -50.0
[2,1] = -40.0
[3,1] = -30.0
[4,1] = -20.0
[5,1] = -10.0
[6,1] = 0.0
[7,1] = 10.0
[8,1] = 20.0
[9,1] = 30.0
[10,1] = 40.0
[11,1] = 50.0
! Variable Data Number Record Dimension
! Name Type Elements Variance Variances
! -------- ---- -------- -------- ---------
"LATITUDE" CDF_REAL4 1 F F T
! Attribute Data
! Name Type Value
! -------- ---- -----
"FIELDNAM" CDF_CHAR { "Latitude variable " }
"VALIDMIN" CDF_REAL4 { 0.0 }
"VALIDMAX" CDF_REAL4 { 90.0 }
"SCALEMIN" CDF_REAL4 { -30.0 }
"SCALEMAX" CDF_REAL4 { 30.0 }
"UNITS" CDF_CHAR { "Degrees " }
"FORMAT" CDF_CHAR { "F8.3 " } .
[1,1] = -30.0
[1,2] = -20.0
[1,3] = -10.0
[1,4] = 0.0
[1,5] = 10.0
[1,6] = 20.0
[1,7] = 30.0
! Variable Data Number Record Dimension
! Name Type Elements Variance Variances
! -------- ---- -------- -------- ---------
"TEMPERATURE" CDF_INT4 1 T T T
! Attribute Data
! Name Type Value
! -------- ---- -----
"FIELDNAM" CDF_CHAR { "Temperature " }
"VALIDMIN" CDF_INT4 { 0 }
"VALIDMAX" CDF_INT4 { 50 }
"SCALEMIN" CDF_INT4 { 0 }
"SCALEMAX" CDF_INT4 { 10 }
"UNITS" CDF_CHAR { "Deg C " }
"FORMAT" CDF_CHAR { "I2 " } .
#zVariables
! Variable Data Number Record Dimension
! Name Type Elements Dims Sizes Variance Variances
! -------- ---- -------- ---- ----- -------- ---------
"BIAS" CDF_INT4 1 0 T
! Attribute Data
! Name Type Value
! -------- ---- -----
"FIELDNAM" CDF_CHAR { "Correction bias for temperature" }
"VALIDMIN" CDF_INT4 { -5 }
"VALIDMAX" CDF_INT4 { 5 }
"UNITS " CDF_CHAR { "deg C " }
"FORMAT " CDF_CHAR { "I2 " } .
1:[] = 34
2:[] = 28
3:[] = 17
! Variable Data Number Record Dimension
! Name Type Elements Dims Sizes Variance Variances
! -------- ---- -------- ---- ----- -------- ---------
"Coefficients" CDF_REAL4 1 1 3 F T
! Attribute Data
! Name Type Value
! -------- ---- -----
"FIELDNAM" CDF_CHAR { "Temperature model coefficients." }
"FORMAT " CDF_CHAR { "F9.1 " } .
[1] = -0.0254
[2] = 14.2338
[3] = -9.9444
! Variable Data Number Record Dimension
! Name Type Elements Dims Sizes Variance Variances
! -------- ---- -------- ---- ------- -------- ---------
"TMP-model" CDF_REAL4 1 2 360 180 T T T
! Attribute Data
! Name Type Value
! -------- ---- -----
"FIELDNAM" CDF_CHAR { "Temperature model." }
"VALIDMIN" CDF_REAL4 { -20.0 }
"VALIDMAX" CDF_REAL4 { 50.0 }
"SCALEMIN" CDF_REAL4 { 0.0 }
"SCALEMAX" CDF_REAL4 { 30.0 }
"UNITS " CDF_CHAR { "deg C " }
"FORMAT " CDF_CHAR { "F9.6 " } .
#end