To whom it may concern,
I'm looking for a contact person within the UCAR/netCDF development community
with whom to discuss a variety of netCDF issues (phone or email). This
"netcdfgroup" email address was given to me by Al Hermann, a Physical
Oceanographer/modeller at our Laboratory.
We have an in-house visualization and analysis utility for large, gridded data
sets called FERRET. We are in the process of enhancing it to support netCDF.
The issues that I need feedback on are:
o style extensions beyond those suggested under "Commonly Used
Attributes" in the netCDF Users' Guide. (to stay consistent
with common practice.)
o availability of "generic" files from a variety of sites to exercise
FERRET
o availability of other public netCDF software
o how to make netCDF software publically available to the netCDF user
community
An "Alpha" version of FERRET supporting netCDF is up and running on Sun's and
DECstations. Based on the guidelines from the netCDF Users' Guide it supports
"generic" netCDF files over a fairly broad range.
Cheers - Steve Hankin
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