Introduction and Overview

Table of Contents

• What is NetCDF?
  • Looking for NetCDF-Fortran Documentation?
• Learn more about the current NetCDF-C Release
  • The Latest NetCDF Build Status
    • NetCDF-C
    • NetCDF-Fortran
• Learn more about using NetCDF-C
• NetCDF CMake and Windows support:
• About NetCDF

What is NetCDF?

NetCDF is a set of software libraries and self-describing, machine-independent data formats that support the creation, access, and sharing of array-oriented scientific data. NetCDF was developed and is maintained at Unidata. Unidata provides data and software tools for use in geoscience education and research. Unidata is part of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) Community Programs (UCP). Unidata is funded primarily by the National Science Foundation.

The NetCDF homepage may be found at https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/. The NetCDF source-code is hosted at GitHub, and may be found directly at http://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c.

Looking for NetCDF-Fortran Documentation?

You can find the documentation for netCDF-Fortran here:

• The NetCDF-Fortran Developer's Guide

Learn more about the current NetCDF-C Release

• Release Notes
• Getting and Building NetCDF

The Latest NetCDF Build Status

NetCDF-C

• The netCDF-C Nightly and Continuous Integration Dashboard
• NetCDF-C at Travis-CI

NetCDF-Fortran

• The netCDF-Fortran Nightly and Continuous Integration Dashboard
• NetCDF-Fortran at Travis-CI

Learn more about using NetCDF-C

• Tutorial Documentation
• The netCDF User's Guide
• Working with NetCDF Files from the command line.

NetCDF CMake and Windows support:

• Build Instructions for NetCDF-C using CMake
• Installing and Using netCDF-C Libraries in Windows

About NetCDF

Authors

Russ Rew, Glenn Davis, Steve Emmerson, Harvey Davies, Ed Hartnett, Dennis Heimbigner and Ward Fisher

NetCDF was developed and is maintained at Unidata, part of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) Community Programs (UCP). Unidata is funded primarily by the National Science Foundation.

A complete list of credits and contributors to NetCDF may be found at the NetCDF Credits page.

Unidata provides data and software tools for use in geoscience education and research.