NetCDF Shared Dimensions vs. HDF5 Dimension Scales

Unidata Program Center developer John Caron has been thinking a lot about HDF5's Dimension Scales, how they relate to netCDF's Shared Dimensions, and why data should be written with the netCDF-4 library using Shared Dimensions.

If you like that sort of thing, browse on over to the Unidata Developer's Blog and check out these recent postings:

• HDF5 Dimension Scales
• HDF5 Dimension Scales - Part 2
• HDF5 Dimension Scales - Part 3
• NetCDF-4 Dimensions and HDF5 Dimension Scales