Experimental package of a pure julia NetCDF 3 file format reader and writer.

The NetCDF API follows generally the C API with the following Julia-specific changes (mostly for performance reason)

• names should be Symbols instead of Strings
• Ordering of the dimensions of lists like dimid, stride, count,... should be reversed relative the the C API (as Julia uses column-major ordering)

Supported Formats

• CDF-1: the original and default NetCDF format
• CDF-2: Format introduced in NetCDF 3.6.0 (mode NC_64BIT_OFFSET)
• CDF-5: Format introduced in NetCDF 4.4.0 (mode NC_64BIT_DATA)

NetCDF4 (based on HDF5) is not supported and not within scope.

Credits

Pupynere from Roberto De Almeida (licenced MIT) was extremely helpful to understand the NetCDF Classic Format Specification.