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NCO has supported MD5 digests since 2012 http://nco.sf.net/nco.html#md5 If I understand your intent, this might be part of a suitable solution, since you can use NCO to compute/print (and, optionally store as attributes) the MD5 hashes of every field in a file, and these hashes should agree for the same data regardless of the underlying storage compression level etc, filesystem type, etc. It is a foolproof way to verify data integrity. And NCO can get the files from remote filesystems via Opendap or HSI or ESGF or scp/ftp. Feedback welcome. -- Charlie Zender, Earth System Sci. & Computer Sci. University of California, Irvine 949-891-2429 )'(
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