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This article is from the Scientific Data Format Information FAQ, by Ilana Stern ilana@kiowa.scd.ucar.edu with numerous contributions by others.

07 Scientific Data Format: netCDF

NetCDF (Network Common Data Form) is an interface for scientific data
access which implements a machine-independent, self-describing, extendible
file format. All netCDF information is available via the WWW site
<URL:http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/>.

Source code and documentation for the netCDF data access library
is available from <URL:ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/netcdf.tar.Z>.

A FAQ is available from
<URL:http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/faq.html> or in text from
<URL:ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/FAQ>.

Past netCDF support inquiries have been archived and can be searched from
<URL:gopher://groucho.unidata.ucar.edu/7waissrc%3a/systems/netcdf/unidata-support-netcdf.src>.

The netCDF User's Guide is available as a hypertext (HTML) document
from <URL:http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/guide.txn_toc.html>,
in compressed PostScript at
<URL:ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/guide.ps.Z>, or in source form
with the netCDF source distribution.

A recent paper (Jenter and Signell, 1992) which provides a good introduction
to netCDF is available as <URL:ftp://crusty.er.usgs.gov/pub/>.

A visual browser for netCDF format data files is available from
<URL:ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/contrib/ncview.tar.Z>.

A mailing list, netcdfgroup@unidata.ucar.edu, exists for discussion of the
netCDF interface, and for announcements of netCDF news: to subscribe, send
a message to majordomo@unidata.ucar.edu containing the line:
"subscribe netcdfgroup". The archives of netcdfgroup are available from
<URL:ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/mail-archives/>, and can be searched
at <URL:wais://wais.unidata.ucar.edu:210/netcdf-group.src>.

For more information, contact support@unidata.ucar.edu.

 

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