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Hi Joe, > In follow-up to a particular point of discussion that was repeated in > many forums at the ESRI User Conference this year, I have a favor to > ask of you, I don't think it will take up too much of your time; Can > you help us to gain a better understanding regarding the most commonly > used types of NetCDF data that from your experience would be most > important for ESRI to support? More specifically we need to get > samples of all of those data types. Would you happen to have any > sample NetCDF data we could work with? > > We are interested in samples of both the: > > 1. Type of sensor data stored in NetCDF that is most important, such > as towed bouys or radiosonds, etc > > 2. And the pseudo standard used in the storage of this data, such > as CF or Coords, or others > > This will help ESRI to better support use of this data format, and > provide some tools for using ArcGIS to work with this data in a > geographic context. We have some sample data, but I'd like to put together a web page by early next week with links to typical data files that it would be most useful to be able to access. That way I can add comments and keep the file up-to-date with what we think are important datasets. --Russ