On Aug 13, 2012, at 10:52 AM, Lynnes, Christopher S. (GSFC-6102) wrote:
> Hey, folks, thanks for all the feedback! There seem to be enough tools out
> there that have not gotten to netCDF-4 yet that we will have to stick to
> netCDF-3 for now, though I will be watching this space for announcement of
> tool upgrades.
>
> I have a followup question: one of the use cases we had for netCDF-4 was
> that the underlying storage format is HDF5, making them readable by *hdf*
> tools like HDFview. Some of our users like its spreadsheet-style interface
> for examining data values. Is there a netcdf tool with an equivalent
> capability? (Panoply has some capability in that vein, but it's more limited
> than HDFView.)
> --
> Dr. Christopher Lynnes NASA/GSFC, Code 610.2 phone: 301-614-5185
>
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I would have to check through my emails, but I thought I remember a
conversation about HDF5 tools and netcdf4 a few months ago. The gist IIRC, is
that while netcdf4 is a legitimate HDF5 fie, the structure and semantics may
not be understood by a tool just because it can read HDF5 files, and that was
because some of these things were mapped at a low level of the interface?
Russ, John, do I remember this correctly?
-Roy
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