Section: 2009 Unidata NetCDF Workshop for Developers and Data Providers

1	Introduction Introduction to the 2009 NetCDF User Workshop.
2	Overview of Unidata Overview of Unidata software and services.
3	Overview of netCDF NetCDF: its purpose, features, niche, intended users, and some alternatives to consider for storing and accessing scientific data.
4	The "Classic" NetCDF Data Model The netCDF data model in detail: dimensions, variables, attributes, coordinate variables
5	NetCDF Utilities: ncdump and ncgen Generic netCDF utilities: ncdump, ncgen, and ncgen4.
6	Best Practices Experience-based "best practices" for writing netCDF files.
7	CF Conventions Overview of the increasingly important CF conventions.
8	libcf: A New Library for CF Conventions Support Introduction to a new library for creating and accessing netCDF files compliant to the CF Conventions
9	Using NetCDF: IDV and NCL Introduction to the Iteractive Data Viewer (IDV) and NCAR Command Language (NCL).
10	NetCDF APIs Summary of various application programming interfaces (APIs) for netCDF data access.
11	NetCDF Example Programs Equivalent example programs in C, C++, F77, F90, Java, Python, MATLAB, Perl, and, IDL have been written to demonstrate features of the netCDF APIs.
12	Remote Access to Datasets Through netCDF-3 Introduction to the access of remote datasets using the DAP protocol through the netCDF-3 interface.
13	Formats and Performance Implications of format on performance. Performance tips and pitfalls.
14	Using NetCDF: The Cooperative Arctic Data and Information Service (CADIS) Overview of CADIS.
15	Introduction to NetCDF-4 Introduction to the netCDF-4 data model, APIs, format, compatibility, features, performance enhancements, and plans.
16	NetCDF Data Models in Detail The classic and enhanced data models from a developer's perspective.
17	Unidata's Common Data Model and NetCDF Java Library API Overview The netCDF Java library provides another way to access and create netCDF data.
18	Chunking and Deflating Data with NetCDF-4 NetCDF-4/HDF5 data may be written in chunks for increased performance, and may use on-the-fly compression.
19	Advanced Utilities The ncdump utility has been expanded, and the ncgen4 utility developed, to handle the netCDF-4 enhanced data model.
20	Remote Access and NetCDF-4 Access NetCDF-4 data remotely with OPeNDAP.
21	Parallel I/O with NetCDF Using parallel I/O can result in significant performance improvements in high performance computing applications.
22	Using Groups and the New NetCDF-4 Atomic Types Introduction to use of groups and the new atomic types in netCDF-4.
23	User Defined Types in NetCDF-4 NetCDF-4 introduces user defined types in the enhanced data model.
24	NetCDF-4 Interoperability The netCDF-4 nteroperability features allow users to open some HDF4 and HDF5 files as if they were netCDF files.
25	The Future of netCDF Short- and long-term plans for netCDF and libcf development, along with speculation about the future of scientific data access.