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The author would also like to thank the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), and its technology-transfer arm Unidata, on top of whose netCDF interface for data access the I/O API was built, and without which it would have been much more difficult to construct an easy-to-use, modeler-oriented machine-independent selective direct access interface to air-quality-oriented data, as well as the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), whose mosaic which can be used to view this html document.
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