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Free and efficient exchange of data between netcdf files, Xarray and Iris

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Document netcdf feature support #28

Open pp-mo opened 11 months ago

pp-mo commented 11 months ago

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