"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).
The below can be used to view all of the installations of GDAL on a particular system, where this example uses Coeus. There are several instances of netcdf for various compilers. The module spider command will list all of them.
$ module spider netcdf
Then, for example,
module load netcdf-c