netcdf

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  "why_use_this": "Essential dependency for climate, weather, and geospatial software that needs efficient multi-dimensional array I/O. NetCDF is the de facto standard for scientific data interchange in Earth sciences; use this if your workflow or build chain requires netcdf-c (the reference implementation). Includes HDF5-based formats and compression via zstd and libaec."
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