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

If you don't need features of the netCDF-4 data model, I would recommend to 
stay in the "classic" model (e.g., netCDF-3).

There is still software which does not support all the features of netCDF-4 
(including the R interface package where I'm the author).

It depends therefore on the structure your datasets will have. If you can write 
them using the netCDF-3 data model, there's in my opinion no need for netCDF-4. 
Anyway, the netCDF-4 library can read/write also the "classic" format.

+1 for netCDF-3

Pavel

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