The architecture taskforce held a meeting (2008-4-15) on the progress of NetCDF as the default output format for Delft3D and SOBEK. The presentation is attached.
Issues discussed (aside from topics mentioned in the presentation):
- Importance of adaptation en extension of the CF standard for output.
- Implementation challenges
- phasing out old tools and libraries (What is the end of life cycle for old file formats?)
- backward compatibility (Will we make sure all old files can be read and written?)
- programming language for conversion tools (Shall we use matlab or another dynamic language to implement the converters?)
- Planning
Agreed was that:
In the next few months we will work on creating converters to import and export cf/netcdf files from and to our current output files. (april - july)
In the 2nd half of this year we will work to change our output formats from his/nefis to netcdf.
Relevant links:
CF standard
CF standard names
NetCDF
Unstruc example requires access to delft3d/sobek repository
NetCDF sources with VS2005 solution requires access to delft3d/sobek repository
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