contact person for netCDF ideas

• To: netcdfgroup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
• Subject: contact person for netCDF ideas
• From: "Steve H. 206-526-6080" <HANKIN@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1992 12:37 PDT

To whom it may concern,

I'm looking for a contact person within the UCAR/netCDF development community 
with whom to discuss a variety of netCDF issues (phone or email).  This 
"netcdfgroup" email address was given to me by Al Hermann, a Physical 
Oceanographer/modeller at our Laboratory.

We have an in-house visualization and analysis utility for large, gridded data 
sets called FERRET.  We are in the process of enhancing it to support netCDF.  
The issues that I need feedback on are:

        o style extensions beyond those suggested under "Commonly Used
          Attributes" in the netCDF Users' Guide.  (to stay consistent 
          with common practice.)

        o availability of "generic" files from a variety of sites to exercise
          FERRET

        o availability of other public netCDF software

        o how to make netCDF software publically available to the netCDF user
          community

An "Alpha" version of FERRET supporting netCDF is up and running on Sun's and 
DECstations.  Based on the guidelines from the netCDF Users' Guide it supports 
"generic" netCDF files over a fairly broad range.

        Cheers - Steve Hankin

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