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>To: <address@hidden> >From: "Nicholas Yue" <address@hidden> >Subject: Status of NetCDF-4 >Organization: ? >Keywords: 200208230738.g7N7cqK13394 netCDF 4.0 Hi, > I have read the mention of NetCDF-4 in a report by Russ Rew in 1997. > > Have there been any new information in the last 5 years ? The development of netCDF-4 required more resources than the Unidata Program Center could dedicate to it, so I wrote a proposal to the NSF ITR program to team up with NCSA in developing netCDF-4 on top of HDF-5. A description of that proposal is available here: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/proposals/NetCDFHDF/ The panel of reviewers rejected the proposal, mostly because it was too little research and too much infrastructure. We're still seeking resources for this development. It's currently part of another NSF ITR proposal about which we haven't heard yet, and if that gets rejected, it's being written into the Unidata 5-year proposal to NSF for our work from 2003 to 2008. --Russ _____________________________________________________________________ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu