Getting started with sciNetCDF
NetCDF
NetCDF is a software library, and a self-describing, machine-independent open data format that support the creation, access, and sharing of array-oriented scientific data. The version 4 of NetCDF is based on the HDF5 file format.
The project homepage is hosted by the Unidata program at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR).
sciNetCDF
sciNetCDF is the Scilab interface to the NetCDF library (version 4). It provides functions to read/write NetCDF files natively in Scilab in a friendly manner. sciNetCDF can read and write NetCDF files of any version (version 4 of the format is used by default for writing).
The following NetCDF features are provided:
The following platforms are supported:
No prerequisites are needed to use sciNetCDF.
The sciNetCDF interface is separated into two interfaces.
High level interface
This interface is based on the Matlab interface. It allows to write/read Scilab native data (matrixes, hypermatrixes) to NetCDF files, in an easy manner, automatic data conversion occurs between Scilab and NetCDF.
It consists of the following functions:
Low level interface
This interface is based on the NetCDF C interface. It requires more coding effort than the high level interface (data has to be converted manually...) but it provides almost all the features of the C library, some of wich are not supported by the high level interface.
This interface is described in this guide.