[netcdf-java] NetCDF-Java NetCDF4 file write capabilities?

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• Subject: [netcdf-java] NetCDF-Java NetCDF4 file write capabilities?
• From: Patrick Sunter <patrick@xxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:18:41 +1000

Hi there,

we're looking at using the NetCDF-Java library as part of a system for managing 
spatial raster data :- and wondering if there's any update on possible timeline 
for implementing NetCDF4 write capabilities?

I searched the archive and saw a few messages that one way to do this would be 
a JNI wrapper to the NetCDF C library. We will also have a look at Nujan as 
suggested by the FAQ.

In our case I don't think we'd need to be able to write files with the full 
flexibility of the CDM, primarily would just like to write raster-oriented 
large NetCDF files with spatial referencing encoded, e.g. with CF-1 
conventions. So we'd be happy with the NetCDF classic data model, but want to 
take advantage of the HDF5 backend features like on the fly compression and 
chunking.

thanks, Patrick.
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Patrick Sunter
Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing
 - Senior Computational Scientist
Monash University, School of Mathematical Sciences
 - Adjunct Research Associate, AuScope Simulation & Modeling Victorian Node

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