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Hi Ben, No, the current version of netCDF-4 reads HDF5 files that were written with the netCDF-4 interface. The intention is that when netCDF 4.0 is released (which depends on the release of HDF5 version 1.8), a restricted subset of other HDF5 files will also be readable through the netCDF-4 interface. In particular, HDF5 files readable through tthe netCDF-4 API will have to meet these conditions: - if Groups are used, their structure must be hierarchical - no use of data types not supported by netCDF-4, including Reference or Time - no use of szip compression - Dimensions scales must be defined for any shared dimensions --Russ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: ECC-435970 Department: Support netCDF Priority: Normal Status: Closed