The NPP satellite mission is to produce data in HDF5. There is great interest in seeing these data through the netCDF API, so that netCDF tools can work with NPP data.
At the HDF5 workshop this week I have been given a sample file by Elena which is like the NPP files we will eventually see.
NetCDF can read HDF5 files as long as they follow certain rules, but the NPP files doesn't all those rules. In particular, they use the reference type, currently no handled by netCDF. My plan is to have netCDF not give up when it runs into a reference object.
