2 Concepts

• 2.1 CDF Library
  • 2.1.1 Interfaces
    • Standard Interface
    • Internal Interface
    • CDF's IDL Interface
  • 2.1.2 CDF Modes
    • Read-Only Mode
    • zMode
    • -0.0 to 0.0 Mode
  • 2.1.3 Limits
    • Open CDFs
  • 2.1.4 Caching Scheme
• 2.2 CDFs
  • 2.2.1 Accessing
  • 2.2.2 Creating
  • 2.2.3 Opening
  • 2.2.4 Closing
  • 2.2.5 Deleting
  • 2.2.6 Naming
  • 2.2.7 Format
    • Multi-File CDFs
    • Single-File CDFs
      • Indexing Scheme.
    • Performance
  • 2.2.8 Encoding
    • Host Encodings
    • Network Encoding
    • Equivalent Encodings
      • Character/1-Byte Integer Data Types.
      • Multiple-Byte Integer Data Types.
      • Single-Precision Floating-Point Data Types.
      • Double-Precision Floating-Point Data Types.
    • Performance
  • 2.2.9 Decoding
    • Performance
  • 2.2.10 Data Types
    • Integer Data Types
    • Floating Point Data Types
    • Character Data Types
    • EPOCH Data Type
    • Equivalent Data Types
  • 2.2.11 Limits
• 2.3 Variables
  • 2.3.1 Accessing
  • 2.3.2 Opening
  • 2.3.3 Closing
  • 2.3.4 Naming
  • 2.3.5 Numbering
  • 2.3.6 Deleting
  • 2.3.7 Dimensionality
  • 2.3.8 Records
    • Numbering
    • Allocated Records
    • Initial Records
    • Extend Records
  • 2.3.9 Data Specification
    • Data Type
    • Number of Elements
  • 2.3.10 Record Variance
  • 2.3.11 Dimension Variance
  • 2.3.12 Majority
  • 2.3.13 Single Value Access
  • 2.3.14 Hyper Access
    • Example (Fortran application)
  • 2.3.15 Sequential Access
    • Example (Fortran application)
  • 2.3.16 Multiple Variable Access
  • 2.3.17 Variable Pad Values
• 2.4 Attributes
  • 2.4.1 Naming
  • 2.4.2 Numbering
  • 2.4.3 Attribute Scopes
    • Assumed Scopes
  • 2.4.4 Deleting
  • 2.4.5 Attribute Entries
    • Accessing
    • Numbering
    • Data Specification
    • Deleting
• 2.5 NSSDC Standard
  • 2.5.1 Standard Attributes
  • 2.5.2 Standard Variables