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Gtool4 NetCDF Conventions

About gtool4 NetCDF Conventions

Gtool4 NetCDF Conventions provides a self-descriptive storage format for gridded data mainly for geophysical sciences.

• based on a machine-independent file format, NetCDF.
• standardizes metadata for data analysis (including visualization), and sharing of data analysis tools will be encouraged.

When compared with other commonly-used conventions, it has following features.

• Coordinate Independence: it does not assume the coordinate system to be on the Earth.
• Includes Visualization Settings: metadata can describe ``how the data should be rendered,'' and visualization operation can be simplified.

We hope that the conventions evolves to be more general framework of non-gridded data.

Conventions

• Online Documentation (in JAPANESE) (Version: gt4ncconv-4_3_3)
• TAR + GZIP Packages (Version: gt4ncconv-4_3_3)
  • Old Version Packages and Source Codes

About Citation

When you publish your scientific/technological work in which gtool4 netCDF Conventions are used, please refer to our work in the following way:

Toyoda, E., Ishiwatari, M., Horinouchi, T., Akahori, K., Numaguti, A., Hayashi, Y.-Y., GFD Dennou Club Davis Project, 2000: gtool4 netCDF Conventions, http://www.gfd-dennou.org/library/gtool4/, GFD Dennou Club.

Gtool4 Development Group / GFD Dennou Staff
Last Updated: 2005/10/12, Since: 2004/03/17