Re: [ferret_users] [ferret users] future of ferret & netcdf-4

[Ansley Manke <ansley.b.manke@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mark,
We've heard from several users with the same questions; this is clearly 
an issue coming up for lots of folks.  Ferret reads netCDF files through 
the OPeNDAP libraries.  We were asking the people at OPeNDAP about this 
just last week, and they've been working on getting netCDF-4 
capabilities into those libraries. It sounds as if this should be 
available quite soon, and as soon as it's available we will link Ferret 
with that and make a release.

Ansley

Mark.Collier@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm beginning to use netcdf-4, for me through the python interface. I'm wondering what are
> the future plans for ferret and builds incorporating netcdf-4? Personally many of the nice new
> features of netcdf-4 may not be all that appealing if the files cannot be read directly by ferret.
> Having to preprocess netcdf-4 files to make them "ferretable" would also be inefficient. I suspect
> these considerations will be of great interest to the upcoming CMIP5 activity and for those who
> actively rely on ferret to check and analyse that data before and during submission.
> Thanks,
> Mark.
>