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Unidata NetCDF
==============
# Unidata NetCDF
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The Unidata network Common Data Form (netCDF) is an interface for
### About
The Unidata network Common Data Form (**netCDF**) is an interface for
scientific data access and a freely-distributed software library that
provides an implementation of the interface. The netCDF library also
defines a machine-independent format for representing scientific data.
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and C++ interfaces. They have been tested on various common
platforms.
#### Properties
NetCDF files are self-describing, network-transparent, directly
accessible, and extendible. `Self-describing` means that a netCDF file
includes information about the data it contains. `Network-transparent`
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all the preceding data. `Extendible` means that data can be appended to
a netCDF dataset without copying it or redefining its structure.
#### Use
NetCDF is useful for supporting access to diverse kinds of scientific
data in heterogeneous networking environments and for writing
application software that does not depend on application-specific
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* http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/netcdf/software.html
##### More informations
For more information about netCDF, see the netCDF Web page at
* http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/netcdf/
### Latest releases
You can obtain a copy of the latest released version of netCDF software
from
* http://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c
* http://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-fortran
* http://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-cxx4
* http://github.com/Unidata/netcdf4-python
* C - http://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c
* Fortan - http://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-fortran
* Libraries and utilities in C - http://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-cxx4
* Python - http://github.com/Unidata/netcdf4-python
### Copyright
Copyright and licensing information can be found here, as well as in
the COPYRIGHT file accompanying the software
* http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/copyright.html
### Install
To install this package, please see the file INSTALL in the
distribution, or the (usually more up-to-date) document:
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* http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/netcdf/docs/netcdf-man-3.html
* http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/netcdf/docs/netcdf-man-3f.html
### User's Guides
User's Guides are also available in several forms from the same
location.
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* http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/netcdf/mailing-lists.html
### Feedback
We appreciate feedback from users of this package. Please send
comments, suggestions, and bug reports to
<support-netcdf@unidata.ucar.edu>. Please identify the version of the