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5.12 Classic NetCDF Model Limitations
The classic netCDF data model used for netCDF-3 has some limitations.

Simple and easy to understand, but:

Corresponding classic netCDF format has performance limitations:

Despite these limitations, netCDF-3 is very widely used in climate modeling, ocean science, and atmospheric science, and has been used to represent some very complex data, e.g. grids Show popup described in Gridspec specification.

 


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