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NetCDF NetCDF
NetCDF (network Common Data Form) is a set of software libraries and machine-independent data formats that support the creation, access, and sharing of array-oriented scientific data.
Getting Started with NetCDF
NetCDF is freely available (LICENSE). To build netCDF download the netCDF source distribution. The distribution contains the C/C++/F77/F90 libraries, and netCDF utilities ncgen and ncdump. See the downloads page for precompiled binaries.
Installation instructions for C, Fortran, and C++ libraries
NetCDF for Java
Other interfaces to netCDF data: MATLAB, Objective-C, Perl, Python, R, Ruby, Tcl/Tk,
Software for manipulating or displaying netCDF data
Who uses netCDF?
Developers may wish to download daily netCDF snapshot release, or see output from netCDF testing.
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Full NetCDF Documentation
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Questions or comments can be sent to Unidata netCDF Support
 
NetCDF Build Troubleshooter
Special instructions for Intel and Portland Group compilers.
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Successful build output for tested platforms
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Build failure symptoms and resolution
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Note: the netCDF-4.x releases will only build with the netCDF-4 enhanced features if "--enable-netcdf-4" is provided as a configure option. By default the distribution will build the classic netCDF-3 library. We believe that most users will not need the enhanced netCDF-4 features at this time.
 
NetCDF News and Announcements
Posted: 2008-12-26
NetCDF User Survey: We would like to learn how you use netCDF and what features you would like to see in the future. Please take the netCDF user survey.
Posted: 2008-12-26
NetCDF Beta Release: We are pleased to announce the release of version 4.0.1-beta2. This beta release includes bug fixes and portability and performance enhancements. Please send any feedback to support-netcdf@unidata.ucar.edu.
Posted: 2008-12-01
NetCDF Workshop On-line: The web pages from the Unidata 2008 workshop NetCDF for Data Providers and Developers are now available.

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