Unidata NetCDF

		    Unidata NetCDF

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, Fortran-77, Fortran-90, and C++ interfaces for
applications and data. It has been tested on various common
platforms.

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