NetCDF

What is NetCDF?

"NetCDF (Network Common Data Form) is a set of software libraries and machine-independent data formats that support the creation, access, and sharing of array-oriented scientific data. It is also a community standard for sharing scientific data" (NetCDF Documentation).

How is NetCDF loaded?

The below can be used to view all of the installations of GDAL on a particular system, where this example uses Coeus.

$ module avail |& grep -i "netcdf"

General/netcdf/4.4.1.1/gcc-6.3.0

General/netcdf-fortran/4.4.4/gcc-6.3.0

What is the different between NetCDF and NetCDF-Fortran?

NetCDF-Fortrain is contains NetCDF-built Fortran libraries. 

How is NetCDF invoked?

To invoke NetCDF's configuration setter, use the below. For more on using NetCDF, refer to here.

$ module load General/netcdf/4.4.1.1/gcc-6.3.0

$ nc-config