Development of gtool4: a self-descriptive storage format for multi-dimensional numerical data

摘要

Storage format for multi-dimensional numerical data is developed for the purpose of researches mainly on geophysical fluid phenomena. In order to achieve platform-independency, netCDF is used for low-level file format. NetCDF conventions for variables and attributes are presented to realize self-descriptiveness, which flexibly support visualization information and various kind of grid-structure. A visualization and analysis software written in Fortran 90 is now under development in order to demonstrate self-descriptiveness of the data format.