Hi Liam, You will not be able to read an arbitrary HDF5 file, but you will be able to read some HDF5 files not created using the netCDF-4 API. There is a list of HDF5 features not supported in netCDF-4 here: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/netcdf-4/newdocs/netcdf/Interoperability-with-HDF5.html --Russ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: RIT-216945 Department: Support netCDF Priority: Normal Status: Closed