@xylar, I recently wrote a really simple script that appends MPAS mesh variables from one file to another (e.g.,input.nc to output.nc) using ncks. I needed it to be able to easily import a MPAS-O output file (that didn't contain mesh information) into paraview. I thought I'd ask if a) you think this is a useful script to commit somewhere and b) if you think MPAS-Tools is the right place. Maybe something like this already exists?