Copyright 1998 American Meteorological Society . To appear in the Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, Dallas, Texas, American Meteorology Society, January 1999. The AMS does not guarantee that the copy provided here is an accurate copy of the published work. NetCDF supports the creation, manipulation, and sharing of scientific data sets that are self-describing, portable, directly accessible, and appendable.
Concrete classes are available to read and write netCDF files.
The work also includes an object-oriented approach to multidimensional array access which augments Java language facilities. Continuing the netCDF tradition, the Java version lowers barriers to exchange and use of scientific data. The software is delivered as two Java packages, ucar.multiarray and ucar.netcdf . We discuss each in turn. We devote a separate section to discussion of the RMI work.