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File formats are divided into general formats such as NetCDF, HDF4 and HDF5, which are intended to support a broad range of scientific data, and specialized formats such as Hierarchical Data Format—Earth Observing System (HDF-EOS) and GRIdded Binary (GRIB), which add special functionality tailored to a narrower range of data types. All of these store binary data for storage efficiency, are portable across machine architectures, and have application programming interfaces (APIs) to various programming languages that insulate programmers from the low-level details of the file format.
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DDS in XML format.
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Python library implementing the Data Access Protocol.
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Drach, R., Caron, J. (2013). Data Representation. In: Earth System Modelling - Volume 4. SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36464-8_5
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