Re: [netcdfgroup] better to distribute data in netCDF-4/classic or netcdf-3?

• To: "Lynnes, Christopher S. (GSFC-6102)" <christopher.s.lynnes@xxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: [netcdfgroup] better to distribute data in netCDF-4/classic or netcdf-3?
• From: Rich Signell <rsignell@xxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 17:19:45 -0400

Chris,

All the analysis and packages I regularly use work fine with NetCDF-4:

- all NetCDF-Java based applications (IDV, NCTOOLBOX, Panoply)
- Matlab (using the included native Mathworks NetCDF routines)
- Python (using NetCDF4-Python)

So I place my vote for NetCDF4.

-Rich

On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Lynnes, Christopher S. (GSFC-6102)
<christopher.s.lynnes@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Our refactored visualization system, Giovanni, will be distributing 
> intermediate and end products as netCDF.
>
> My question to the community is:  should we distribute in netCDF-3 or 
> netCDF-4/classic?
> Are enough of the main netCDF tools updated to work with netCDF-4 / classic 
> by now to make the switch?
> Or any other reason why we might want to hang back at netCDF-3?
> --
> Dr. Christopher Lynnes     NASA/GSFC, Code 610.2    phone: 301-614-5185
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