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2009 Unidata NetCDF Workshop for Developers and Data Providers

17 Unidata's Common Data Model and NetCDF Java Library API Overview
The netCDF Java library provides another way to access and create netCDF data.

This presentation (PPT, PDF) covers a developer's perspective on what netCDF is, an overview of the netCDF Java library, NcML, and the the three layers of the Unidata Common Data Model. There are side-bars on multicore CPUs, row stores versus column stores, the importance of shared dimensions, representation of coordinate systems, and the need for conventions.

 


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2009 Unidata NetCDF Workshop for Developers and Data Providers