Who We Are
The NetCDF Foundation is a community-driven group dedicated to supporting the netCDF ecosystem. We are committed to ensuring the sustainability, development, and accessibility of netCDF for current and future generations of scientists and data practitioners.
Our Mission
- Maintain and advance netCDF software and standards
- Provide documentation, training, and user support
- Foster an open and collaborative community
- Promote interoperability and data sharing
Our Vision
To empower the scientific community with robust, open, and sustainable data formats and tools that advance research and discovery worldwide.
Bio
Edward Hartnett
Co-author of netCDF
Edward Hartnett is one of the authors of netCDF, a freely available software library for scientific data, used by NASA, NOAA, the ESA, and climate and meteorology scientists around the world. He has also co-authoed PIO, a parallel I/O library for supercomputers, and the NOAA NCEPLIBS GRIB libraries, and supervised software engineering teams for NASA missions including Messenger, Cassini, MAVEN, MMS, SORCE, AIM, and TSIS.
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About our Corporate Sponsor
Intelligent Data Design, Inc.
We gratefully acknowledge the generous support of Intelligent Data Design, Inc., whose commitment to open science and data innovation helps ensure the continued development and accessibility of netCDF for the global scientific community.