The NOAA National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) recently published version 1.0 of their netCDF templates for scientific feature types. The templates conform to Unidata's netCDF Attribute Convention for Dataset Discovery (ACDD) and to the netCDF Climate and Forecast (CF) conventions. Building on these established conventions, the NODC netCDF templates capture NODC's experience in providing long-term preservation, scientific quality control, product development, and multiple data re-use beyond its original intent.

Background

The C++ libdap library uses what I will call an "eager" evaluation method. By this I mean that the whole packet is processed when received, is decomposed into its constituent parts (e.g. data arrays, sequence records, etc) and those parts are used to annotate the parsed DDS.

Version 4.1.0 of the netCDF Operators (NCO) has been released. NCO is an Open Source package that consists of a dozen standalone, command-line programs that take netCDF files as input, then operate (e.g., derive new data, average, print, hyperslab, manipulate metadata) and output the results to screen or files in text, binary, or netCDF formats.

The Unidata netCDF group is pleased to announce the 4.2 release of the netCDF C library.

This release contains performance enhancements, bug fixes, a few new features in utilities, and internal refactoring. It is designed to be compatible with existing netCDF data and software.

Version 4.0.9 of the netCDF Operators (NCO) has been released. NCO is an Open Source package that consists of a dozen standalone, command-line programs that take netCDF files as input, then operate (e.g., derive new data, average, print, hyperslab, manipulate metadata) and output the results to screen or files in text, binary, or netCDF formats.

NCAR's Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) Research Data Archive (RDA) contains a large and diverse collection of meteorological and oceanographic observations, operational and reanalysis model outputs, and remote sensing datasets to support atmospheric and geosciences research, along with ancillary datasets, such as topography/bathymetry, vegetation, and land use.

CISL's Data Support Section, which manages the Research Data Archive, recently announced that users of some subsets of the archived data can request files in NetCDF format.

The easiest way to install netCDF: yum install netcdf-devel

The Unidata NetCDF group is pleased to announce the new 4.1.3 release of the netCDF C/Fortran/C++ libraries.