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4 API Extensions Introduced with NetCDF-4

NetCDF-4 includes many advanced features. These features are only available when working with files created in the netCDF format. (That is, HDF5 files, created by netCDF, or simple-model HDF5 files).

Interoperability: Reading and writing HDF5 files.
Multiple-Unlimited-Dimensions: Use more than one unlimited dimension.
Groups: Organizing data heirarchically.
Compound-Types: Creating data type like C structs.
Opaque-Types: Creating a data type of known size.
VLEN-Type: Variable length arrays.
Strings: Storing strings of data.
New-inq-Functions: Functions to help explore a file.
Future: What's coming next!

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