NetCDF Credits
Unidata is sponsored by the National Science Foundation and managed
by the University Corporation for
Atmospheric Research. The NASA CDF data model, to which netCDF
owes much, was developed by Michael Gough and Lloyd Treinish. Joe
Fahle designed a C version for a CDF-like interface and discussions
with Joe provided much of the inspiration for the original netCDF C
interface. The netCDF C library and first version of the Java
interface were written by Glenn Davis. The nctest test suite, ncdump,
ncgen, the original C++ interface, and most of the original User's
Guides were written by Russ Rew. The Fortran77 test code was written
by Cathy Cormack. The configure-based installation system, vars and
varm array access implementation, Fortran77 interface, and original
perl interface were written by Steve Emmerson. The netCDF-3 interface
design and the new nc_test exhaustive test code were developed by
Glenn Davis and Harvey Davies. The Fortran77 interface uses Burkhard
Burow's cfortran.h package. John Caron wrote the subsequent netCDF
Java implementations. The new Fortran90 interface and User's Guide
were developed by Robert Pincus. Ed Hartnett updated and simplified
the configure-based installation, enhanced Windows support, refactored
the documentation while converting it into texinfo, and is the primary
developer for netCDF-4. Dennis Heimbigner wrote the netCDF-4 version
of ncgen and the new OPeNDAP client interface.
The following people have contributed related software, bug
reports, fixes, valuable suggestions, and other kinds of useful
support:
Jennifer Adams, Bob Albrecht, Dave Allured, Ethan Alpert,
Chris Anderson, Ayal Anis,
Harald Anlauf, Lynton Appel, Phil Austin, Fedor Baart, Eric Bachalo,
Jason Bacon, Sandy Ballard, Matthew Banta, Mike Berkley, Ingo
Bethke, Sherman Beus, Lorenzo Bigagli, Mark Borges, Nicola Botta,
Kenneth P. Bowman, Bill Boyd, Mark Bradford, Bernward Bretthauer,
Paul A. Bristow, Roy Britten, Dave Brown, Alexander Bruhns, Ryan
Cabell, Jed O. Caplan, Glenn Carver, Tom Cavin, Morrell Chance,
Susan C. Cherniss, Jason E. Christy, Gerardo Cisneros, Alain Coat,
Carlie J. Coats, Jr., Tony Conrad, Jon Corbet, Alexandru Corlan, Jim Cowie,
Arlindo da Silva, Chris Dallimore, Rick Danielson, Alan Dawes,
Donald W. Denbo, Charles R. Denham, Arnaud Desitter, Sue Dettling,
Steve Diggs, Martin Dix, Michael Dixon, Jacek Dlugosz, Alastair
Doherty, Bob Drach, Ludovic Drouineau, Huaiyu Duan, Patrice Dumas, Paul
J. Durack, Frank Dzaak, Brian Eaton, Harry Edmon, Lee Elson, Mario
Emmenlauer, Ata Etemadi, Constantinos Evangelinos, John Evans, Joe
Fahle, Gabor Fichtinger, Glenn Flierl, Connor J. Flynn, Shanna-Shaye
Forbes, Anne Fouilloux, Jean-Francois Foccroulle, Mike Folk, David
Forrest, David W. Forslund, Ben Foster, Masaki Fukuda, Dave Fulker,
Ryo Furue, James Gallagher, Bear Giles, Tom Glaess, Peter Gleckler,
Paul Goodman, André Gosselin, Udo Grabowski, Gary Granger,
Jonathan Gregory, Patrick Guio, Mark Hadfield, Magnus Hagdorn, Paul
Hamer, Steve Hankin, Bill Hart, Kate Hedstrom, Charles Hemphill,
Olaf Heudecker, Donn Hines, Konrad Hinsen, Yuan Ho, Leigh Holcombe,
Tim Holt, Toshinobu Hondo, Takeshi Horinouchi, Chris Houck, Matt
Huddleston, Matt Hughes, Tim Hume, Doug Hunt, L. F. Hwang, Alan
Imerito, Jouk Jansen, Steve Jardin, Harry Jenter, Susan Jesuroga,
Patrick Jöckel, Tomas Johannesson, Peter Gylling
Jørgensen, Narita Kazumi, Maxwell Kelley, John Kemp, Heiko
Klein, Jeff Kuehn, V. Lakshmanan, Bruce Langdon, Stephen Leak,
Benoit Lecocq, Tom LeFebvre, Angel Li, Jianwei Li, Rick Light, Brian
Lincoln, Keith Lindsay, Fei Liu, Jeffery W. Long, Dave Lucas,
Valerio Luccio, Lifeng Luo, John Lillibridge, Steve Luzmoor,
Lawrence Lyjak, Rich Lysakowski, Sergey Malyshev, Len Makin, Harry
Mangalam, David Mansbach, Jim Mansbridge, Andreas Manschke, Chris
Marquardt, Marinna Martini, William C. Mattison, Craig Mattocks,
Sean McBride, Mike McCarrick, Bill McKie, Ron Melton, Roy
Mendelssohn, Pavel Michna, Barb Mihalas, Henry LeRoy Miller Jr.,
Philip Miller, Rakesh Mithal, Masahiro Miiyaki, Christine
C. Molling, Skip Montanaro, Thomas L. Moore, Stefano Nativi,
Gottfried Necker, Peter Neelin, Michael Nolta, Bill Noon, Enda
O'Brien, Thomas Orgis, Dave Osburn, Dan Packman, Simon Paech, Gabor
Papp, Morten Pedersen, Louise Perkins, Michael D Perryman, Hartmut
Peters, Ron Pfaff, David Pierce, Alexander Pletzer, Philippe
Poilbarbe, Dierk Polzin, Orion Poplawski, Jacob Weismann Poulsen,
Ken Prada, Greg Rappa, Dave Raymond, Michael Redetzky, Rene Redler,
Mark Reyes, Doug Reynolds, Mike Rilee, Mark Rivers, Randolph
Roesler, Mike Romberg, Mathis Rosenhauer, Cédric Roux, Suzanne T. Rupert,
Toshihiro Sakakima, Eric Salathe, Matthew H. Savoie, Marie Schall,
Larry A. Schoof, Dan Schmitt, Robert B. Schmunk, Rich Schramm,
William J. Schroeder, Uwe Schulzweida, Keith Searight, Guntram
Seiss, Remko Scharroo, John Sheldon, Masato Shiotani, Michael
Shopsin, Richard P. Signell, Steve Simpson, Joe Sirott, Greg
Sjaardema, Dirk Slawinski, Cathy Smith, Neil R. Smith, Peter
P. Smolka, Nancy Soreide, Hudson Souza, Gunter Spranz, Richard
Stallman, Bjorn Stevens, Bob Swanson, John Tanski, Karl Taylor,
Jason Thaxter, Kevin W. Thomas, Jonathan Tomshine, Mark Tracy,
Philippe Tulkens, Warren Turkal, Tom Umeda, Joe VanAndel, Paul van
Delst, Gerald van der Grijn, Richard van Hees, Jànos
Vègh, Jos Verdoold, Matthieu Verstraete, Pedro Vicente,
Bernhard Wagner, Thomas Wainwright, John C. Warner, Richard Weed,
Stephen Walker, Chris Webster, Paul Wessel, Jeffrey S. Whitaker,
Carsten Wieczorrek, Gerry Wiener, Ralf Wildenhues, David Wilensky,
Hartmut Wilhelms, Gareth Williams, David Wojtowicz, Jeff Wong, Randy
Zagar, Charlie Zender, Remik Ziemlinski.
Development and implementation of netCDF was supported by the
National Science Foundation, Unidata's primary sponsor. Development
of the netCDF-4 interface was initially funded by NASA's Earth Science
Technology Office and supported in part by a cooperative agreement
with NASA under grant NAG 5-2040. Addition of OPeNDAP client support
to the netCDF library is based upon work supported by the National
Science Foundation under Grant No.0721628. Any opinions, findings and
conclusions or recomendations expressed in this material are those of
the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the
sponsoring organizations.
This document is maintained by Russ Rew
<russ@unidata.ucar.edu>.
