NetCDF 3.6.2

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.
Main features:
- All features of netCDF 3.6
- Large file support (> 2 GB data files)
- Use of HDF5 for storage
- Backward file-format compatibility
- Backward API compatibility
- Parallel I/O
- Multiple unlimited dimensions
- Additional Data Types
- Hierarchical Grouping of Data
- Bit packing
- Compression and other filters
- Revised documentation
- Examples
- Distribution with both netCDF and HDF5 packages
- (Unicode/ASCII) String data type
- Anonymous dimensions
- Support for compound data types, including nested compound types
- User-defined data type
- Upgrades to ncgen/ncdump/CDL to reflect new features
- NcML support for ncgen/ncdump
- F90 interface
- C++ interface
- Demonstrable performance gains in modeling contexts on advanced architectures
- HDF5 file driver support
Whats New in 4.0 Alpha 11 Development Release:
- Enum type added.
- NetCDF-4 verified support of common data model.
- ncdump support new features and NcML.
- No netCDF-4 artifacts in file.
- Uses HDF5 creation order information.
- NetCDF-4 documentation complete.
Whats New in 3.6.2 Stable Release:
- Support for shared libraries was added.
- Major documentation additions were done.
- Speedups were made on little-endian machines.
- Minor bugs were fixed.