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Re: NetCDF converters

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  • Subject: Re: NetCDF converters
  • Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 15:12:33 -0600
> Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 16:55:41 -0400
> From: Frank <address@hidden>
> To: Steve Emmerson <address@hidden>
> Subject: NetCDF converters

Frank,

> Your remark about the FAN software not being supported is
> bugging me. I need to edit and reform NetCDF files. What is
> being supported and what does do you think or know the future
> developments will be in terms of NetCDF conversions and
> converters?

FAN was written by Harvey Davies from CSIRO, and he recently decided
to drop FAN maintenance and develop a different package instead called
"CAPS" using TCL.  According to Harvey, this may eventually handle
netCDF files as well, but currently handles only the kinds of files he
is working with, mostly AVHRR imagery represented in HDF.

It's hard to make any general statement about the support of netCDF
utilities, except that the list of utilities that can display or
manipulate netCDF data listed at

  http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/software.html

is still growing.  I add new entries as I hear about them and
periodically delete entries that are no longer available.  The new
pure Java netCDF interface makes me confident that users will continue
to use netCDF data and develop utilities for this form of data.  We
have no plans to drop support for netCDF, and we continue to provide
support and backward compatibility for netCDF programs written 10
years ago.

--Russ

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