Technical Papers & Resources

Selected publications, white papers, and references behind our netCDF and NEP work.

The NetCDF Expansion Pack (NEP)

White paper covering NEP's lossless compression filters, User-Defined Format readers, and example programs for C and Fortran.

Edward Hartnett, Intelligent Data Design, Inc.
The NetCDF Developer's Handbook, Second Edition

The authoritative guide to writing high-performance programs for scientific data management with netCDF.

Edward Hartnett, 2026
ResearchGate Profile

Additional papers and conference presentations on netCDF, scientific data formats, and compression.

Edward Hartnett on ResearchGate
Selected Publications
  • Hartnett, Edward, Charles Zender, Ward Fisher, et al. "Quantization and Next-Generation Zlib Compression for Fully Backward-Compatible, Faster, and More Effective Data Compression in NetCDF Files." AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA, December 2021.
  • Hartnett, Edward, and Charlie Zender. "Adding Quantization to the NetCDF C and Fortran Libraries to Enable Lossy Compression." EGU General Assembly, May 2022.
  • Gallagher, James, Russ Rew, R. McQueary, D. Heimbigner, and Edward Hartnett. "Merging the Data Models of NetCDF and DAP: Design Choices and Benefits." AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, 2008.