Hi James, > We have another project here where data are being read into Matlab > and organized in a special way. What's the best tool (programming > language, et c.) to so this? I'm no MATLAB expert, but there are various tools for accessing netCDF data in MATLAB: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/software.html#MEXNC http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/software.html#CSIRO-MATLAB http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/software.html#MexEPS http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/software.html#Mirone http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/loadFile.do?objectId=15177&objectType=file The first of these describes software maintained by John Evans at Rutgers, including a nice tutorial. The last is a highly rated netCDF reader package for use in MATLAB. The others I don't know much about. Unidata's netCDF-Java package is also useful for accessing netCDF data (and other kinds of data handled by the Common Data Model), even through OPeNDAP: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/support/help/MailArchives/netcdf/msg03303.html http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/support/help/MailArchives/netcdf/msg03304.html Sorry I can't tell you what the "best" of these is, it probably depends on the applications, whether you only want to read the data, etc. --Russ