Chris,
All the analysis and packages I regularly use work fine with NetCDF-4:
- all NetCDF-Java based applications (IDV, NCTOOLBOX, Panoply)
- Matlab (using the included native Mathworks NetCDF routines)
- Python (using NetCDF4-Python)
So I place my vote for NetCDF4.
-Rich
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Lynnes, Christopher S. (GSFC-6102)
<christopher.s.lynnes@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Our refactored visualization system, Giovanni, will be distributing
> intermediate and end products as netCDF.
>
> My question to the community is: should we distribute in netCDF-3 or
> netCDF-4/classic?
> Are enough of the main netCDF tools updated to work with netCDF-4 / classic
> by now to make the switch?
> Or any other reason why we might want to hang back at netCDF-3?
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