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Document netcdf feature support #28

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The limitations of the of Netcdf4 support / feature coverage.
CF. NUG

I.E. mostly excluding the extended "User defined" NC4 data types:

  • "Enum"
  • "Opaque"
  • "Compound" -- structure-like
  • "VariableLength" -- notably, including variable-length-strings

Note on string/character data handling

  • strings presented as arrays of "S1"
  • no unicode support for character data
    • though there is for names of components (variables, groups, dimensions, attributes)
    • ... ?? and in string attributes ??

Also a note on groups:

  • ncdata supports them
  • iris/xarray (mostly) don't

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