How to read all variables in netcdf file

Dear all,

I have a netcdf file with 705 variables inside.

The names of the variables in the netcdf are something like this:

2020_m03_w9_spring, 2019_m11_w42_fall, 2020_m07_w12_summer, 2020_m02_w8_winter, etc, etc, etc

Note that m means month and w means weak.

So, I would like to pass all these variables to a workspace variable, using for example the function "ncread", putting all spring variables together, all fall together, all summer together and all winter together creating this way four 3d matrices.

Additionally, I would like to sort each 3d matrices according to the week.

Do you have an idea how to do this?

Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

[Chunru]

fn = "abc.nc"
ni = ncinfo(fn);

for i=1:length(ni.Variables)
    vn = ni.Variables(i).Name;
    x.(vn) = ncread(fn, vn);  % The result is a structure 
end

% Then you can organize the variables as you want