-Unidata’s Common Data Model (CDM) is an abstract <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_model" target="_blank">data model</a> for scientific datasets. It merges the <a href="https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/" target="_blank">netCDF</a>, <a href="http://www.opendap.org" target="_blank">OPeNDAP</a>, and <a href="https://portal.hdfgroup.org/display/support/" target="_blank">HDF5</a> data models to create a common API for many types of scientific data. The NetCDF Java library is an implementation of the CDM which can read many file types. Unidata’s Common Data Model (CDM) is an abstract <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_model" target="_blank">data model</a> for scientific datasets. It merges the <a href="https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/" target="_blank">netCDF</a>, <a href="http://www.opendap.org" target="_blank">OPeNDAP</a>, and <a href="https://portal.hdfgroup.org/display/support/" target="_blank">HDF5</a> data models to create a common API for many types of scientific data. The NetCDF Java library is an implementation of the CDM which can read many [file formats](file_types.html) besides netCDF. We call these CDM files, a shorthand for files that can be read by the NetCDF Java library and accessed through the CDM data model.
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