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Dear Ben,
As MARIS we are involved in the EMODNet Physics project where we every day download ca 2000 NetCDF files from the European operators of ca 900 metocean stations (EuroGOOS) with 24 hours of timeseries of waves, currents, winds, temperature, sealevel, etc
Thereafter we extract those files into our local database and use it to provide the EMODNet users with 60 days graphics of the parameters per station.
Our platform: Windows
Development environment: .Net van microsoft
Used netcdf library: Scientific data-set library and tools
Url naar library: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/ccf905f6-34c6-4845-892e-a5715a508fa3/
This extraction of reading and writing takes us several hours per day, also because some NetCDF files are ca 2 Mb each includingb multiple parameters at multiple depth levels.
Can you advise us another library under Windows for faster extraction?
Hoping to hear from you soon.
Regards
Dick M.A. Schaap