Unidata

1.10 Plans for NetCDF

NetCDF 4.0 is currently under development at Unidata. It introduces a new file format for netCDF datasets - one based on HDF5. For more information about HDF5, see the HDF5 web site: http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/.

NetCDF 4.0 will include the following features:

• Multiple dynamic dimensions.
• Support for files > 2 GiByte.
• Support for parallel I/O.
• Packed data, compression
• New data types.

See the netCDF-4 web site, http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/netcdf-4/index.html, for more information.