netCDF
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NetCDF (Network Common Data Form) is a set of software libraries and self-describing, machine-independent data formats that support the creation, access, and sharing of array-oriented scientific data. The project homepage is hosted by the Unidata program at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR). They are also the chief source of netCDF software, standards development, updates, etc. The format is an open standard. NetCDF Classic and 64-bit Offset Format are an international standard of the Open Geospatial Consortium.
Key facts
- File format.name
- Network Common Data Form
- File format.extension
- .nc
- File format._nomimecode
- on
- File format.mime
- application/netcdfapplication/x-netcdf
- File format.magic
- CDF\001\211HDF\r\n\032\n
- File format.developer
- University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
- File format.genre
- scientific binary data
- File format.extended_from
- Common Data Format (CDF)Hierarchical Data Format (HDF)
- File format.standard
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- File format.standards
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Official website
NetCDF | NSF Unidata
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf
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- file extension
- nc
- media type
- application/x-netcdf
- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/netcdf
- inception
- 1997-00-00
- short name
- netCDF
- software version identifier
- 4.9.3
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Article
13 sectionsContents
- History
- Format description
- Software
- Access libraries
- Applications
- Common uses
- Conventions
- Parallel-NetCDF
- Interoperability of C/Fortran/C++ libraries with other formats
- NetCDF-Java common data model
- See also
- References
- External links
NetCDF (Network Common Data Form) is a set of software libraries and self-describing, machine-independent data formats that support the creation, access, and sharing of array-oriented scientific data. The project homepage is hosted by the Unidata program at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR). They are also the chief source of netCDF software, standards development, updates, etc. The format is an open standard. NetCDF Classic and 64-bit Offset Format are an international standard of the Open Geospatial Consortium.
==History== The project started in 1988 and is still actively supported by UCAR. The original netCDF binary format (released in 1990, now known as "netCDF classic format") is still widely used across the world and continues to be fully supported in all netCDF releases. Version 4.0 (released in 2008) allowed the use of the HDF5 data file format. Version 4.1 (2010) added support for C and Fortran client access to specified subsets of remote data via OPeNDAP. Version 4.3.0 (2012) added a CMake build system for Windows builds. Version 4.7.0 (2019) added support for reading Amazon S3 objects. Version 4.8.0 (2021) added further support for Zarr. Version 4.9.0 (2022) added support for Zstandard compression. Further releases are planned to improve performance, add features, and fix bugs.