NetCDF for New Users

NCAR Mesa Laboratory Damon Room, Thursday, October 25, 2012

8:00 am: Coffee and refreshments

8:30 am: Logistics, introductions, Unidata overview (Russ)

NetCDF-3 and the Classic Data Model

• 8:45 am: NetCDF overview (Russ)
• 9:00 am: Getting and building netCDF (Ward)
• 9:20 am: NetCDF "classic" data model (Russ)
• 9:45 am: NetCDF utilities: ncdump, ncgen, nccopy (Russ)
• 10:15 am: Remote data access using OPeNDAP (Dennis)

10:30 am: Break

NetCDF programming interfaces

• 10:45 am: NetCDF for Windows (Ward)
• 11:00 am: Library architecture (Russ)
• 11:20 am: NetCDF APIs (Russ)
• 11:40 am: Writing and reading netCDF data (Russ)
• 11:50 am: Diskless netCDF files (Dennis)

Noon: Lunch

NetCDF-4

• 1:00 pm: NetCDF-4 enhanced data model (Russ)
• 1:30 pm: Performance features of netCDF-4 (Russ)
• 2:00 pm: Using utilities with netCDF-4 (Russ)
• 2:20 pm: Programming with netCDF-4 interfaces (Russ)

2:45 pm: Break

Recommendations for Data Providers

• 3:00 pm: Udunits (Steve)
• 3:15 pm: CF Conventions (Russ)
• 3:45 pm: Compression and chunking 1 (Russ)
• 4:15 pm: Worst and best practices (Russ)
• 4:45 pm: End