NetCDF (Network Common Data Form) is a file format used for storing scientific data, especially in earth and atmospheric sciences. It provides a self-describing format for multidimensional arrays and metadata, enabling efficient data access and analysis. NetCDF supports data compression, chunking, and parallel I/O, making it suitable for big data and collaboration among scientists. It can be accessed using various programming languages....storage and processing of large-scale geospatial datasets. Metadata...techniques. Instead, it provides scale/offset packing, a basic method...