NetCDF for New Users

NCAR Mesa Laboratory Damon Room, Thursday, October 25, 2012

8:00 am: Coffee and refreshments

8:30 am: Logistics, introductions, Unidata overview (Russ)

NetCDF-3 and the Classic Data Model

• 8:45 am: NetCDF overview (Russ)
• 9:00 am: Getting and building netCDF (Ward)
• 9:20 am: NetCDF "classic" data model (Russ)
• 9:45 am: NetCDF utilities: ncdump, ncgen, nccopy (Russ)
• 10:15 am: Remote data access using OPeNDAP (Dennis)

10:30 am: Break

NetCDF programming interfaces

• 10:45 am: NetCDF for Windows (Ward)
• 11:00 am: Library architecture (Russ)
• 11:20 am: NetCDF APIs (Russ)
• 11:40 am: Writing and reading netCDF data (Russ)
• 11:50 am: Diskless netCDF files (Dennis)

Noon: Lunch

NetCDF-4

• 1:00 pm: NetCDF-4 enhanced data model (Russ)
• 1:30 pm: Performance features of netCDF-4 (Russ)
• 2:00 pm: Using utilities with netCDF-4 (Russ)
• 2:20 pm: Programming with netCDF-4 interfaces (Russ)

2:45 pm: Break

Recommendations for Data Providers

• 3:00 pm: Udunits (Steve)
• 3:15 pm: CF Conventions (Russ)
• 3:45 pm: Compression and chunking 1 (Russ)
• 4:15 pm: Worst and best practices (Russ)
• 4:45 pm: End

NetCDF Annual Update

NCAR Mesa Laboratory Damon Room, Friday, October 26, 2012

8:00 am: Coffee and refreshments

HDF5, netCDF-Java, and the Common Data Model

• 8:30 am: Introduction (Russ)
• 8:45 am: HDF5 for netCDF Users (Russ)
• 9:15 am: NetCDF-Java and CDM (John Caron)
• 10:00 am: NcML, coordinates, subset service (John Caron)

10:30 am: Break

Applications of netCDF

• 10:45 am: Developing generic netCDF software (Russ)
• 11:00 am: Third-party netCDF packages: NCO, NCL, CDO (Russ)
• 11:15 am: Using NetCDF - NCAR Climate Data (Gary Strand)
• 11:45 am: Converting ASCII to netCDF (Sean Arms)

12:00: Lunch

Recent advances in netCDF and CF

• 1:00 pm: Remote Data Access Update (Dennis)
• 1:15 pm: Use of CMake, Cdash, Ctest (Ward)
• 1:30 pm: NetCDF and Python (Sean Arms)
• 2:00 pm: CF developments (Russ)
• 2:15 pm: NetCDF and standards (Ben Domenico)

2:30 pm: Break

Extensions, Performance, and the Future

• 2:45 pm: Dispatch layer and netCDF architecture (Dennis)
• 3:00 pm: Parallel I/O (Russ)
• 3:30 pm: Compression and chunking 2 (Russ)
• 3:45 pm: NetCDF plans and priorities (Russ)
• 4:00 pm: Participating in netCDF development (Russ)

4:15 pm: End