ncfiles = dir('*.nc4'); %this identifies all files within my folder ending in '.nc4'
Nfiles = length(ncfiles); %this indicates the number of files in my folder (i.e. 31)
all_times = cell(Nfiles,1);
for i = 1:Nfiles
ncfiles(i).name %this just helps my OCD in listing the name of the file
all_times{i} = ncread(ncfiles(i).name, 'time') %this reads the variable "time" for each of my 31 .nc files
end
This postpones all consideration of the best way to combine the information until after the data has been read in and stored. Afterwards you could
time = horzcat(all_times{:});
for example if each individual entry is a column vector of consistent length.
