Unidata NetCDF Workshop for Developers and Data Providers

UCAR Mesa Lab

October 28 - 29, 2010

  
Thursday, Oct 28
Basic NetCDF

8:00 am
Coffee and Refreshments

8:30 am
Logistics, Introduction, NetCDF Development Team Ed
8:45 am
Overview of Unidata Software and Services
Russ
9:00 am
Overview of NetCDF
Russ
9:30 am
NetCDF Data Models: Classic and Enhanced
Ed
10:00 am
break

10:15 am
NetCDF Utilities: ncdump/ncgen/nccopy
Russ
10:45 am
CF Conventions for Coordinate Systems, Gridded, and Observational Data
Ed
11:00 am
Best Practices for Data Providers
Russ
11:30 am
Using the IDV
Yuan
11:45 am
lunch

1:00 pm
Introduction to the NetCDF APIs/Example Programs
Ed
1:30 pm
Remote Data Access with OPeNDAP
Dennis
2:00 pm
Intro to NetCDF-Java and TDS
John/Ethan
2:30 pm
Classic NetCDF Performance
Russ
3:00 pm
break

3:15 pm
Intro to NetCDF-4
Ed
3:45 pm
Using NetCDF - CADIS
Jeff
4:00 pm
Using NetCDF - NCAR Climate Data
Gary Strand
4:30 pm
Happy NetCDF Hour at local brewpub.




Friday, Oct 29
Advanced NetCDF

8:00 am
Coffee and Refreshments

8:30 am
NetCDF Data Models in Detail
Russ
9:00 am
NetCDF-Java/CDM/NcML
John
10:00 am
break

10:15 am
NetCDF-4 Compression and Chunking
Ed
10:45 am
HDF5 for netCDF Developers
Quincey Kozial
11:15 am
Advanced ncgen/ncdump
Dennis
noon
lunch

1:00 pm
UDUNITS
Steve
1:15 pm
NetCDF-4 and Parallel I/O
Ed
1:45 pm
NetCDF-4 Groups and new Types
Russ
2:15 pm
NetCDF-4 HDF5/HDF4 interoperability
Ed
3:00 pm
break

3:15 pm
The Libcf Library
Ed
3:30 pm
GRIDSPEC
Alex
3:45 pm
The Future of NetCDF
Russ/Ed
4:00 pm
End