Re: 980122: matlab/netcdf interface

>To: address@hidden
>From: Jim Mansbridge <address@hidden>
>Subject: matlab/netcdf interface
>Organization: CSIRO Australia
>Keywords: 199801220152.SAA24468

Hi Jim,

> This is just to let you know that the CSIRO matlab/netcdf interface is
> available at
> "http://www.marine.csiro.au/sw/matlab-netcdf.html";.
> 
> The CSIRO matlab/netCDF interface is run from within matlab and has a
> simple syntax. It has options for automatically handling missing values,
> scale factors, and permutation of hyperslabs. It is however limited to
> retrieving data from, and information about, existing netCDF files. 
> 
> The basis of the interface is a machine-dependent mex-file called
> mexcdf53 (an older version running under matlab4 used mexcdf). Rather
> than call the mex-file directly users are advised to employ both Chuck
> Denham's netCDF toolbox and the CSIRO matlab/netCDF interface described
> here. 

Thanks!

I've put a draft description with links in our "Software for
Manipulating or Displaying NetCDF Data" web page at

 http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/software.html#CSIRO-MATLAB

by just cutting and pasting from your note and making the capitalization
consistent with out other MATLAB-related entries.

I'm not a MATLAB user, but I wonder if it might be desirable to provide
a bit more information in the description about when a user would use
the CSIRO MATLAB/netCDF interface with the netCDF Toolbox for MATLAB-5
versus just using the latter package.  Is the following an accurate
description, or are there other relevant differences?

  For read-only access to existing netCDF data, the CSIRO interface has
  a simpler syntax than the netCDF Toolbox for MATLAB-5, but the latter
  may be used to create new netCDF variables and datasets.

Please let me know if you have any changes or additions to the draft
description along these lines, or if it's OK as is.

Thanks again for the information!

--Russ

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Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
address@hidden                     http://www.unidata.ucar.edu