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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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