Unidatas Network Common Data Form (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.

NetCDF is a set of software libraries and machine-
independent data formats that support the creation,
access, and sharing of array-oriented scientific data.
These data are quite large, which is another
characteristic of real data. For a better
understanding of NetCDF file, pay attention the
following concepts:

If a user would need to call and access meteorological
data on a daily, monthly, and annual scale with
different attributes for all regions of the world
(with three and four dimensions), he/she cannot easily
worked with them by other format files (Excel, text,
etc.), due to these format of data have different
attributes so they have large capacity and they have

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