According to the Unidata website the Network Common Data Form (NetCDF) software was originally intended to create, access, and share array-oriented data in a form that is self-describing and portable. These deal with a variety of data types that encompass single-point observations, time series, regularly-spaced grids, and satellite or radar images.
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EFDC+ can currently write the native output in NetCDF-CF format for Windows and Linux. EFDC+ Explorer (the pre-and post-processor for EFDC+) can also convert the binary files output by EFDC+ (*.OUT) to netCDF.nc files, including the derived water quality parameters. EFDC+ currently exports 44 parameters to NetCDF format. This allows EFDC+ output to be read and displayed on web servers. It should be noted that while the display order of some dimensions (i.e. TIME, KC, CELL) in *.nc output files exported from EFDC+ Explorer may differ from that obtained directly from EFDC+, the values of variables are not impacted and retrieved correctly with reference to their descriptive data.
EFDC+ exports the NetCDF files at the same interval that it produces the model linkages files, which is set in the tab for Timing and Linkage | Linkage | NetCDF.
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