1.9 What's New Since the Previous Release?
This Guide documents the 4.0-snapshot2008082116 release of netCDF, which
introduces a new storage format, netCDF-4/HDF5, while maintaining full
backward compatibility.
New features available with netCDF-4/HDF5 files include:
- The user of groups to organize datasets.
- New unsigned integer data types, 64-bit integer types, and a string
type.
- A user defined compound type, which can be constructed by users to
match a C struct or other arbitrary organization of types.
- A variable length array type.
- Support for parallel I/O.
More information about netCDF-4 can be found at the netCDF-4 web
page http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/netcdf-4.
