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What convention should be used for the names of netCDF files?

April 26, 2017Convention files names netCDF Used

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What convention should be used for the names of netCDF files?

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NetCDF files should have the file name extension “.nc”. The recommended extension for netCDF files was changed from “.cdf” to “.nc” in 1994 in order to avoid a clash with the NASA CDF file extension, and now it also avoids confusion with “Channel Definition Format” files.