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NetCDF
NetCDF (network Common Data Form) is a set of
software libraries and machine-independent data
formats that support the creation, access, and sharing of
array-oriented scientific data.
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Getting Started with NetCDF
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Download the source distribution as a gzipped
tar file or compressed
tar file, or see our list of precompiled
binaries on the netCDF
3.6.2 downloads page. The freely available
distribution contains the C/C++/F77/F90 libraries,
and netCDF utilities ncgen and ncdump.
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• Installation
instructions for C, Fortran, and C++
libraries
• NetCDF for Java
• Other interfaces to netCDF data:
MATLAB,
Objective-C,
Perl,
Python,
R,
Ruby,
Tcl/Tk,
• Software
for manipulating or displaying netCDF data
• Who uses netCDF?
• The NetCDF-4 Project
• NetCDF-3.6.3-beta1
and
netCDF-4.0-beta2
are now available.
• Developers may wish to download daily
netCDF
snapshot release, or see output from
netCDF classic testing and
netCDF-4 testing.
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NetCDF Documentation
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• Frequently
Asked Questions about netCDF
• Full NetCDF
Documentation
• Writing NetCDF Files:
Best Practices
• Conventions, example files and programs
• NetCDF Papers and Presentations
• NetCDF Credits
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NetCDF Support
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• NetCDF mailing
list
• Subscribe to the netcdfgroup
or netcdf-porting
mailing lists
• Search or browse
the netCDF support archives
• Search or browse
the netcdfgroup mailing list archives
• Search or browse
the netcdf-porting mailing list archives
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Questions or comments can be sent to Unidata netCDF Support
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NetCDF News and Announcements
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Posted: 2008-05-07
NetCDF 3.6.3 and 4.0 Beta Releases Now
Available
Users interested in netCDF-4
features, please try the netcdf-4.0-beta2
release. Those interested in netCDF Classic only,
try the netcdf-3.6.3-beta1
release. Both are intended to be the final beta
releases. For more information see the 4.0-beta2
release notes or the 3.6.2-beta1
relase notes. NOTE: NetCDF-4.0 is a
drop in replacement, with complete backward
compatibility; it requires the installation of zlib
and HDF5-1.8.0-snap5
to take advantage of new netCDF-4 features.
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Posted: 2008-01-28
NetCDF Paper and Presentation at AMS Annual
Meeting
See the netCDF paper,
Experience with an
enhanced netCDF data model and interface for
scientific data access from the AMS 2008
meeting, and view the exciting presentation.
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Posted: 2007-07-23
NetCDF for Developers Workshop On-line
The web pages from the Unidata workshop NetCDF for
Developers is now available.
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Posted: 2007-05-03
NetCDF Sessions in Unidata Workshops
Attend the Unidata workshop sessions "NetCDF for
Developers" (July 20) and "NetCDF Java - Writing
an I/O Service Provider" (August 6), as well as
sessions about other Unidata tools: GEMPAK, LDM,
THREDDS, IDV, and McIDAS. See the Unidata
workshop page to sign up.
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