netcdf file limitation

Hi All:

 

I am trying to write a 3-dimensional big netcdf file with the ncdf4 package.
I found that when the length of the variable is larger than 2^31 (or file
size larger than 16 GB), it will show an error "ncvar_put doesn't support
long vector yet". Is that the limitation of the ncdf4 package or NetCDF
format? Is there any way to overcome this?

 

Thanks for any suggestion.

 

Jianhua