netCDF (Network Common Data Form) User's Guide: An Interface for Data Access. Version 1.0

摘要

The purpose of the Network Common Data Form (netCDF) interface is to allow you to create, access, and share scientific data in a form that is self-describing and network-transparent. 'Self-describing' means that a file includes information defining the data it contains. 'Network-transparent' means that a file is represented in a form that can be accessed by computers with different ways of storing integers, characters, and floating-point numbers. Using the netCDF interface for creating new scientific data sets can improve the accessibility of the data. Using the netCDF interface in new software for scientific data access, management, analysis and display can improve the reusability of the software for other data sets and by other users. (Copyright (c) 1988, 1989, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research).