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https://github.com/unidata/netcdf-c

Official GitHub repository for netCDF-C libraries and utilities.
https://github.com/unidata/netcdf-c

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# Unidata NetCDF



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### About

The Unidata network Common Data Form (**netCDF**) is an interface for

scientific data access and a freely-distributed software library that

provides an implementation of the interface.  The netCDF library also

defines a machine-independent format for representing scientific data.

Together, the interface, library, and format support the creation,

access, and sharing of scientific data.  The current netCDF software

provides C interfaces for applications and data.  Separate software

distributions available from Unidata provide Java, Fortran, Python,

and C++ interfaces.  They have been tested on various common

platforms.



#### Properties

NetCDF files are self-describing, network-transparent, directly

accessible, and extendible.  `Self-describing` means that a netCDF file

includes information about the data it contains.  `Network-transparent`

means that a netCDF file is represented in a form that can be accessed

by computers with different ways of storing integers, characters, and

floating-point numbers.  `Direct-access` means that a small subset of a

large dataset may be accessed efficiently, without first reading through

all the preceding data.  `Extendible` means that data can be appended to

a netCDF dataset without copying it or redefining its structure.



#### Use

NetCDF is useful for supporting access to diverse kinds of scientific

data in heterogeneous networking environments and for writing

application software that does not depend on application-specific

formats.  For information about a variety of analysis and display

packages that have been developed to analyze and display data in

netCDF form, see



* [Software for Manipulating or Displaying NetCDF Data](https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/netcdf/software.html)



##### More information

For more information about netCDF, see



* [Unidata Network Common Data Form (NetCDF)](https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/netcdf/)



### Latest releases

You can obtain a copy of the latest released version of netCDF

software for various languages:



* [C library and utilities](http://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c)

* [Fortran](http://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-fortran)

* [Java](https://downloads.unidata.ucar.edu/netcdf-java/)

* [Python](http://github.com/Unidata/netcdf4-python)

* [C++](http://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-cxx4)



### Copyright

Copyright and licensing information can be found [here](https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/copyright.html), as well as in the COPYRIGHT file accompanying the software



### Installation

To install the netCDF-C software, please see the file INSTALL in the

netCDF-C distribution, or the (usually more up-to-date) document:



* [Building NetCDF with CMake](https://docs.unidata.ucar.edu/netcdf-c/current/netCDF-CMake.html)

* [Building NetCDF with Autoconf/Automake/Libtool](https://docs.unidata.ucar.edu/netcdf-c/current/netCDF-autotools.html)

* [Building or Getting Binaries for NetCDF on Windows](https://docs.unidata.ucar.edu/netcdf-c/current/winbin.html)



### Documentation

A language-independent User's Guide for netCDF, and some other

language-specific user-level documents are available from:



* [Language-independent User's Guide](https://docs.unidata.ucar.edu/nug/current/index.html#user_guide)

* [NetCDF-C Tutorial](https://docs.unidata.ucar.edu/netcdf-c/current/tutorial_8dox.html)

* [Fortran-90 User's Guide](https://docs.unidata.ucar.edu/netcdf-fortran/current/f90_The-NetCDF-Fortran-90-Interface-Guide.html)

* [Fortran-77 User's Guide](https://docs.unidata.ucar.edu/netcdf-fortran/current/nc_f77_interface_guide.html)

* [netCDF-Java/Common Data Model library](https://docs.unidata.ucar.edu/netcdf-java/current/userguide/)

* [netCDF4-python](http://unidata.github.io/netcdf4-python/)



A mailing list, [email protected], exists for discussion of

the netCDF interface and announcements about netCDF bugs, fixes, and

enhancements.  For information about how to subscribe, see the URL



* [Unidata netCDF Mailing-Lists](https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/netcdf/mailing-lists.html)



### Feedback

We appreciate feedback from users of this package.  Please send comments, suggestions, and bug reports to .