NetCDF is a format developed at Unidata that was
inspired by the CDF format from NASA. NetCDF
stands for "Network Common Data Form" and is a
self-describing data format, commonly used in
scientific and engineering applications.
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CDL support was added for both UTF-8 encoding of
characters and escaped special characters in
names. IEEE NaNs and infinities are handled in a
platform-independent way. Support for ARM
representation of doubles was added. A bug was
fixed in the C++ API for creating 64-bit offset
files. A bug for variables larger than 4 GiB was
fixed. The configure system was updated to solve
more portability problems. The documentation was
fixed in several places. Missing Windows Visual
Studio build files are included. More tests were
added.
The ncdump utility now handles the NetCDF-4 model fully. HDF5 1.8.0 support has been improved. Parallel I/O bugs have been fixed, and new parallel I/O tests added. A benchmarking program has been added. Enhancements have been made to the F77 and F90 APIs to support NetCDF-4. There are additions to the F77 and F90 user guides. There are bugfixes for variables greater than 2 GB. Tests have been added. There are numerous other bugfixes. Portability has been improved.
