Re: NetCDF

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