From ihaka@stat.auckland.ac.nz  Tue Feb  3 18:43:38 1998
From: ihaka@stat.auckland.ac.nz (Ross Ihaka)
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 07:43:38 +1300 (NZDT)
Subject: netcdf
Message-ID: <199802031843.HAA06468@stat1.stat.auckland.ac.nz>

> Luke Tierney wrote:
> Douglas Bates wrote:
> > 
> > Has anyone experimented with the Network Common Data Format (netcdf)
> > described at
> >         http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf
> > for archiving data?
> > 
> > Is this format widely used outside of atmospheric research?
>
> I think Sigbrt Klinke has added support for it to Xplore. Looking into
> NetCDF/CDF/HDF is on my list to do fairly soon for xlispstat but I
> haven't gotten to it yet. My impression is that these are used a fair
> bit in the "scientific visualization" community, but I need to explore
> this further.

By coincidence I just picked up a copy of netcdf last night.  I'm going
to have a look at GMT, particularly the map data base.  NSF funded a big
cleanup of the freely available maps as part of GMT developement.
The maps are in a NetCDF database ...

	Ross
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Ross Ihaka