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re: https://github.com/zarr-developers/zarr-specs/issues/41 After discussions with the Zarr community, it was decided to convert to a new representation of the NCZarr meta-data extensions: version 2. These extensions store information necessary to mapping the Zarr data model to the netcdf-4 data model. The basic change is to remove the NCZarr specific objects: .nczarr, .nczgroup, .nczarray, and .nczattr. The contents of these objects is moved into the corresponding existing Zarr objects as special keys. The mapping is as follows: * ''.nczarr'' => ''/.zgroup/_NCZARR_SUPERBLOCK_'' * ''.nczgroup => ''.zgroup/_NCZARR_GROUP_'' * ''.nczarray => ''.zarray/_NCZARR_ARRAY_'' * ''.nczattr => ''.zattr/_NCZARR_ATTR_'' Backward compatibility is maintained by looking for the object ''/.nczarr'' and if found, then assuming that the dataset is in the older version 1 format. This compatibility only supports reading of such version 1 datasets. Documentation and test cases are also added. Misc. Other Changes: 1. The json parsing code was added to the general library instead of nczarr only (ncjson.c, ncjson.h). 2. Improved support for different platform paths by allowing conversion to a single common path representation. 3. Add some new error codes. 4. Modify nccopy usage to mention the new chunking specification. |
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Unidata NetCDF
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. Together, the interface, library, and format support the creation, access, and sharing of scientific data. The current netCDF software provides C interfaces for applications and data. Separate software distributions available from Unidata provide Java, Fortran, Python, 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
means that a netCDF file is represented in a form that can be accessed
by computers with different ways of storing integers, characters, and
floating-point numbers. Direct-access
means that a small subset of a
large dataset may be accessed efficiently, without first reading through
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 formats. For information about a variety of analysis and display packages that have been developed to analyze and display data in netCDF form, see
More information
For more information about netCDF, see
Latest releases
You can obtain a copy of the latest released version of netCDF software for various languages:
- C library and utilities
- Fortran
- [Java](https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/downloads/netcdf-java/
- Python
- C++
Copyright
Copyright and licensing information can be found here, as well as in the COPYRIGHT file accompanying the software
Installation
To install the netCDF-C software, please see the file INSTALL in the netCDF-C distribution, or the (usually more up-to-date) document:
Documentation
A language-independent User's Guide for netCDF, and some other language-specific user-level documents are available from:
- Language-independent User's Guide
- NetCDF-C Tutorial
- Fortran-90 User's Guide
- Fortran-77 User's Guide
- netCDF-Java/Common Data Model library
- netCDF4-python
A mailing list, netcdfgroup@unidata.ucar.edu, exists for discussion of the netCDF interface and announcements about netCDF bugs, fixes, and enhancements. For information about how to subscribe, see the URL
Feedback
We appreciate feedback from users of this package. Please send comments, suggestions, and bug reports to support-netcdf@unidata.ucar.edu.