H5M is an acronym for HDF5 MARIN Datasets File.

The data which it contains can have any available source at MARIN: Basin measurements, simulator runs, CFD calculations, full scale measurements and post-processing cq analysis of this data.

Important: Reading or writing H5M requires use of HDF5 libraries. Please check HDF5 Dependencies for version compliance.

This convention specifies how the content of a HDF5 file is organised for MARIN. For more information about HDF5 itself and for generic HDF5 viewers please visit https://support.hdfgroup.org/.