Hi all:
The main problem between netcdf-4 and HDF5, IMO, are the different ways
dimensions are handled. I have written a series of blog articles on this
for the gory details:
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/blogs/developer/en/entry/dimensions_scales
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/blogs/developer/en/entry/dimension_scale2
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/blogs/developer/en/entry/dimension_scales_part_3
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/blogs/developer/en/entry/netcdf4_shared_dimensions
John
On 8/13/2012 11:59 AM, Roy Mendelssohn wrote:
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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