Re: netcdf-4 support

Fan,

Mary and Dave will judge when to and what the version to release.
If your group is really interested in trying these features,
I may discuss with Mary and Dave to give you an alpha-version.

Wei Huang
huangwei@ucar.edu
VETS/CISL
National Center for Atmospheric Research
P.O. Box 3000 (1850 Table Mesa Dr.)
Boulder, CO 80307-3000 USA
(303) 497-8924

On Jul 1, 2011, at 3:08 PM, Fang, Fan (GSFC-610.2)[ADNET SYSTEMS INC] wrote:

> Hi Wei,
>
> So release 6.0.0 will not support accessing variables in groups? Actually this is the first nc4 feature we want to try.
>
> If so, what release you're aiming for to get groups and other variable types included?
>
> It's nice to hear from you again.
>
> -Fan
> ________________________________________
> From: Wei Huang [huangwei@ucar.edu]
> Sent: Friday, July 01, 2011 4:01 PM
> To: Fang, Fan (GSFC-610.2)[ADNET SYSTEMS INC]
> Cc: ncl-talk@ucar.edu
> Subject: Re: netcdf-4 support
>
> Fan,
>
> The current NCL release (6.0.0) supports compression (decompression is automatic when reading),
> and chunking (at file or variable level). We are documenting these features, which should be available soon.
>
> We are working on other NetCDF4 features like: string variable, group, vlen, enum, compound, and opaque, etc.
> The works of reading these kinds of data are near finished,
> but writing these data types may take longer.
>
> So we hope in the near feature, which we can provide a beta version to some of our users
> (and eventually to all users).
>
> Wei Huang
> huangwei@ucar.edu
> VETS/CISL
> National Center for Atmospheric Research
> P.O. Box 3000 (1850 Table Mesa Dr.)
> Boulder, CO 80307-3000 USA
> (303) 497-8924
>
>
>
>
>
> On Jul 1, 2011, at 2:53 PM, Fang, Fan (GSFC-610.2)[ADNET SYSTEMS INC] wrote:
>
>> Another general question. How many netcdf-4 features does NCL support? Since NCL is compiled with netcdf-4 lib I would assume all features but I want to make sure. Features include accessing/adding grouped data, compression/decompression, chunking, etc.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> -Fan
>>
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