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[netCDF #MFY-950093]: libCF download?

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  • Subject: [netCDF #MFY-950093]: libCF download?
  • Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 10:05:29 -0600
Hi Nico,

> libCF used to be included into netCDF, but it seems that it isn't
> anymore, cf. <https://github.com/unidata/netcdf-c>.

Right, Unidata support for libCF development was halted about 2 years 
ago, after the primary developer left Unidata.

> Also, the website <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/libcf/>
> isn't very verbose.  Is libCF available from any other location?

The most recent version, from April 2012, is still available from

   ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/libcf/libcf-1.0-beta10.tar.gz

The main development focus at the end had been implementing an API
for GRIDSPEC, in collaboration with a DOE-funded project, but that 
library was never completed.  There are currently better approaches
for conservative regridding in the ESMF regridding software:

   http://www.earthsystemmodeling.org/esmf_releases/last/regridding_status.html

and its Python interface in ESMPy.

The most recent active implementation of a library for the CF 
Conventions is cf-python, at

   http://cfpython.bitbucket.org/

--Russ

Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
address@hidden                      http://www.unidata.ucar.edu



Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: MFY-950093
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed