WCS NetCDF Development

Web Coverage Service Access from NetCDF Files

This page is the main development page of NetCDF based WCS. The tools provided here are:

- A cross platform python-NetCDF library nc3. The most feature-rich library to access NetCDF files via python is PyNIO. Unfortunately it is unix-only. For simple needs you can use nc3 on windows.

- Support for NetCDF Markup Language: NCML. Creating a NetCDF file via plain API is difficult, NCML allows you to describe dimensions, variables and attributes in one xml document. This simplifies creating an empty NetCDF file a great deal.

- Support for CF-1.0 convention. It's not enough to have NetCDF as format, you also need to standardize the attribute names, how to store dimensions etc. To make it easy to create CF-1.0 compatible files, we provide a python library cf1.

cross-platform library to access NetCDF via python.

Tools needed. The version listed is the one used in testing, later versions should work.

- python 2.5.1

- NetCDF 3.6.1

- lxml 1.3.6

Creating CF-1.0 Compatible NetCDF Files

creating of NC

Basics of NCML

libraries.

The Distributed Version Control System

- darcs src code

- how to get binaries

- currently live repositories