Hi Manuel, Looks like this question slipped through the cracks. Sorry about that. Hopefully my answer is still useful to you or somebody else. This looks like a Maven issue, not a NetCDF-Java issue. I was able to open your example dataset okay using the following pom.xml: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <groupId>Foo</groupId> <artifactId>Foo</artifactId> <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version> <repositories> <repository> <id>unidata-releases</id> <name>UNIDATA Releases</name> <url>https://artifacts.unidata.ucar.edu/content/repositories/unidata-releases/</url> </repository> </repositories> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>edu.ucar</groupId> <artifactId>cdm</artifactId> <version>4.5.3</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId> <artifactId>slf4j-jdk14</artifactId> <version>1.7.5</version> </dependency> </dependencies> </project> Perhaps you could try something similar? Cheers, Christian Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: KIP-300925 Department: Support netCDF Java Priority: Critical Status: Closed