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Re: Reading HDF5 Variable [message #42499]

Mon, 14 February 2005 13:35

Paul Van Delst[1]
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Michael Wallace wrote:
>> At the risk of starting a flame war, the netCDF interface (about 25
>> functions) seems to have been written by scientists for scientists,
>> while the HDF interface appears to have been written by programmers
>> for programmers (hundreds(?) of functions).
>
>
> The various problems with HDF are what led me to use netCDF. Not only
> are they written "by scientists for scientists" but much of the
> underpinnings of the format appear to have been written by "computer
> scientists rather than scientists." Issues with the format aside, I
> just like the fact that there are *stable, working* netCDF access
> routines in IDL, Java, C, Perl, Python, etc. In fact, whenever I have
> to work with HDF, the first thing I usually do is write a small
> conversion program that converts the file to netCDF and then I work with
> it from there. :-)

Hey - me too! Except rather than write a conversion program each time, I just pipe the
hdfdump[*] utility output into the ncgen utility to convert files I use. E.g.

hdfdump <hdfile> | ncgen -b <ncfile>

and I end up with a nice simple, useful netCDF file. :o)

paulv

[*] Earlier HDF libraries called this "ncdump" which was very annoying.

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Paul van Delst
CIMSS @ NOAA/NCEP/EMC

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		Re: Reading HDF5 Variable By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Mon, 14 February 2005 13:35
		Re: Reading HDF5 Variable By: Michael Wallace on Mon, 14 February 2005 13:19
		Re: Reading HDF5 Variable By: Michael Wallace on Mon, 14 February 2005 13:13
		Re: Reading HDF5 Variable By: David Fanning on Mon, 14 February 2005 13:18
		Re: Reading HDF5 Variable By: K. Bowman on Mon, 14 February 2005 12:41
		Re: Reading HDF5 Variable By: Michael Wallace on Mon, 14 February 2005 13:40

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