Skip to content

Document netcdf feature support #28

@pp-mo

Description

@pp-mo

The limitations of the of Netcdf4 support / feature coverage.
CF. NUG

I.E. mostly excluding the extended "User defined" NC4 data types:

  • "Enum"
  • "Opaque"
  • "Compound" -- structure-like
  • "VariableLength" -- notably, including variable-length-strings

Note on string/character data handling

  • strings presented as arrays of "S1"
  • no unicode support for character data
    • though there is for names of components (variables, groups, dimensions, attributes)
    • ... ?? and in string attributes ??

Also a note on groups:

  • ncdata supports them
  • iris/xarray (mostly) don't

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

No one assigned

    Labels

    documentationImprovements or additions to documentation

    Type

    No type

    Projects

    No projects

    Milestone

    No milestone

    Relationships

    None yet

    Development

    No branches or pull requests

    Issue actions