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Introduction and Overview

# What is NetCDF?

NetCDF is a set of software libraries and self-describing, machine-independent data formats that support the creation, access, and sharing of array-oriented scientific data. NetCDF was developed and is maintained at Unidata. Unidata provides data and software tools for use in geoscience education and research. Unidata is part of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) Community Programs (UCP). Unidata is funded primarily by the National Science Foundation.

The NetCDF homepage may be found at https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/. The NetCDF source code is hosted at GitHub, and may be found directly at http://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c.

# Looking for NetCDF-Fortran Documentation?

You can find the documentation for netCDF-Fortran here:

- The NetCDF-Fortran Developer's Guide

# Learn more about the current NetCDF-C Release

- Release Notes
- Getting and Building NetCDF

# Learn more about using NetCDF-C

- Tutorial Documentation
- The netCDF User's Guide
- Working with NetCDF Files

# NetCDF CMake and Windows support

- NetCDF-CMake
- Windows Binaries

# About NetCDF

Authors: Russ Rew, Glenn Davis, Steve Emmerson, Harvey Davies, Ed Hartnett, Dennis Heimbigner, and Ward Fisher

NetCDF was developed and is maintained at Unidata, part of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) Community Programs (UCP). Unidata is funded primarily by the National Science Foundation.

A complete list of credits and contributors to NetCDF may be found at the NetCDF Credits page.

Unidata provides data and software tools for use in geoscience education and research.

# Internal Documentation

The dispatch interface within the netCDF library allows the netCDF API to be used for different types of back-ends, for example, the HDF5 library, or a DAP client accessing remote data.