GDAL now supports netcdf format using CF convention as specified by unidata.
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/conventions.hdf
The software looks if the variables lat/latitude and lon/longitude are presents
in the netcdf file. If found, these variables are used to specify the
georeferencing transformation.
I'd like the community to try it out and if there are some problems, let me
know. GDAL netcdf format also works on Windows with he precompile library
version 3.6.1-beta1 (January 2005).
Regards,
Denis Nadeau