Given a group ID and a type name, find the ID of the type. If the type is not found in the group, then the parents are searched. If still not found, the entire file is searched.
int nf90_inq_typeid(int ncid, char *name, nf90_type *typeidp);
ncid
name
typeidp
NF90_NOERR
NF90_EBADID
NF90_EBADTYPE