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3.1 What is netCDF, really?
In the real world, things are more complicated.

NetCDF evolves to keep up with needs of its users, and is actually:

You mostly don't need to be aware of these complications, because new versions of netCDF software support

Also, files written through one language API are readable through other language APIs.

 


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