CDF5 file format specification and additional information
can be found from the PnetCDF web site at https://parallel-netcdf.github.io
Wei-keng
> On Jul 30, 2018, at 4:49 PM, Stephan Hoyer <shoyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The documentation for netCDF4-Python writes:
> 'NETCDF3_64BIT_DATA' is the 64-bit data version of the netCDF 3 file format,
> which supports 64-bit dimension sizes plus unsigned and 64 bit integer data
> types, but is only compatible with clients linked against netCDF version
> 4.4.0 or later.
>
> This seems generally useful, so I'm interested in implementing support for
> this format in the netCDF3 module included in SciPy:
> http://scipy.github.io/devdocs/generated/scipy.io.netcdf_file.html
>
> However, I can't seem to find a description of this format in the netCDF file
> format specification:
> https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs/file_format_specifications.html
>
> Is a full specification for this variation available somewhere? If not, I
> would encourage updating the specifications doc. One of the strengths of
> netCDF (especially netCDF3) is that it is clearly specified and has multiple
> independent implementations :).
>
> Cheers,
> Stephan
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