diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/n/netCDF-C++4/netCDF-C++4-4.3.1-gompi-2024a.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/n/netCDF-C++4/netCDF-C++4-4.3.1-gompi-2024a.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1b9a80b189c4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/n/netCDF-C++4/netCDF-C++4-4.3.1-gompi-2024a.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+easyblock = 'ConfigureMake'
+
+name = 'netCDF-C++4'
+version = '4.3.1'
+
+homepage = 'https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/'
+description = """NetCDF (network Common Data Form) is a set of software libraries
+ and machine-independent data formats that support the creation, access, and sharing of array-oriented
+ scientific data."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'gompi', 'version': '2024a'}
+toolchainopts = {'pic': True}
+
+source_urls = ['https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-cxx4/archive/']
+sources = ['v%(version)s.tar.gz']
+checksums = ['e3fe3d2ec06c1c2772555bf1208d220aab5fee186d04bd265219b0bc7a978edc']
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('netCDF', '4.9.2'),
+]
+
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ['include/netcdf', 'lib/libnetcdf_c++4.a', 'lib/libnetcdf_c++4.so'],
+    'dirs': [],
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'data'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/n/netCDF-Fortran/netCDF-Fortran-4.6.1-gompi-2024a.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/n/netCDF-Fortran/netCDF-Fortran-4.6.1-gompi-2024a.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2bc6e2077943
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/n/netCDF-Fortran/netCDF-Fortran-4.6.1-gompi-2024a.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+name = 'netCDF-Fortran'
+version = '4.6.1'
+
+homepage = 'https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/'
+description = """NetCDF (network Common Data Form) is a set of software libraries
+ and machine-independent data formats that support the creation, access, and sharing of array-oriented
+ scientific data."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'gompi', 'version': '2024a'}
+toolchainopts = {'pic': True, 'usempi': True}
+
+source_urls = ['https://github.com/Unidata/%(namelower)s/archive/']
+sources = ['v%(version)s.tar.gz']
+checksums = ['40b534e0c81b853081c67ccde095367bd8a5eead2ee883431331674e7aa9509f']
+
+builddependencies = [
+    ('M4', '1.4.19'),
+]
+dependencies = [
+    ('netCDF', '4.9.2'),
+    ('bzip2', '1.0.8'),
+]
+
+# (too) parallel build fails, but single-core build is fairly quick anyway (~1min)
+parallel = 1
+
+
+moduleclass = 'data'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/n/netCDF/netCDF-4.9.2-gompi-2024a.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/n/netCDF/netCDF-4.9.2-gompi-2024a.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..861603571096
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/n/netCDF/netCDF-4.9.2-gompi-2024a.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+name = 'netCDF'
+version = '4.9.2'
+
+homepage = 'https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/'
+description = """NetCDF (network Common Data Form) is a set of software libraries
+ and machine-independent data formats that support the creation, access, and sharing of array-oriented
+ scientific data."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'gompi', 'version': '2024a'}
+toolchainopts = {'pic': True, 'usempi': True}
+
+source_urls = ['https://github.com/Unidata/%(namelower)s-c/archive/']
+sources = ['v%(version)s.tar.gz']
+patches = ['%(name)s-%(version_major_minor)s.0_skip-nasa-test.patch']
+checksums = [
+    {'v4.9.2.tar.gz': 'bc104d101278c68b303359b3dc4192f81592ae8640f1aee486921138f7f88cb7'},
+    {'%(name)s-%(version_major_minor)s.0_skip-nasa-test.patch':
+     '19d99e03c048b037dc01f03f5b8ddc910ebaceb076d0f050540d348f26dfcd2a'},
+]
+
+builddependencies = [
+    ('Autotools', '20231222'),
+    ('CMake', '3.29.3'),
+    ('Doxygen', '1.11.0'),
+]
+dependencies = [
+    ('HDF5', '1.14.5'),
+    ('cURL', '8.7.1'),
+    ('Szip', '2.1.1'),
+    ('zstd', '1.5.6'),
+    ('bzip2', '1.0.8'),
+    ('libxml2', '2.12.7'),
+]
+
+# disable Szip, zlib parallel I/O tests, since these can hang on some systems, e.g. generoso
+# see: https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/16834
+# and  https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/17107#issuecomment-1432947172
+preconfigopts = ("sed -i -e 's|@MPIEXEC@ -n 4 ./tst_parallel5|echo \"skipped by EasyBuild\"|g'"
+                 " -e 's|@MPIEXEC@ -n 4 ./tst_parallel_zlib|echo \"skipped by EasyBuild\"|g'"
+                 " -e 's|@MPIEXEC@ -n 4 ./tst_parallel_compress|echo \"skipped by EasyBuild\"|g'"
+                 " %(builddir)s/%(namelower)s-c-%(version)s/nc_test4/run_par_test.sh.in &&")
+
+# make sure both static and shared libs are built
+# and disable "remote" tests that access a unreliable external test server over internet
+configopts = [
+    "-DENABLE_DAP_REMOTE_TESTS=OFF -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF",
+    "-DENABLE_DAP_REMOTE_TESTS=OFF -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON",
+]
+
+# some tests try to start 16 MPI ranks, so we need to allow oversubscription to avoid failing tests
+pretestopts = "OMPI_MCA_rmaps_base_oversubscribe=1 "
+runtest = 'test'
+
+moduleclass = 'data'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/n/netcdf4-python/netcdf4-python-1.7.1.post2-foss-2024a.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/n/netcdf4-python/netcdf4-python-1.7.1.post2-foss-2024a.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..912e23a55b78
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/n/netcdf4-python/netcdf4-python-1.7.1.post2-foss-2024a.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+easyblock = 'PythonBundle'
+
+name = 'netcdf4-python'
+version = '1.7.1.post2'
+
+
+homepage = 'https://unidata.github.io/netcdf4-python/'
+description = "Python/numpy interface to netCDF."
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2024a'}
+toolchainopts = {'usempi': True}
+
+builddependencies = [
+    ('Cython', '3.0.10'),
+]
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('Python', '3.12.3'),
+    ('SciPy-bundle', '2024.05'),
+    ('netCDF', '4.9.2'),
+    ('cURL', '8.7.1'),
+    ('mpi4py', '4.0.1'),
+]
+
+fix_python_shebang_for = ['bin/*']
+sanity_pip_check = True
+use_pip = True
+
+exts_list = [
+    ('cftime', '1.6.4', {
+        'checksums': ['e325406193758a7ed67308deb52e727782a19e384e183378e7ff62098be0aedc'],
+    }),
+    (name, version, {
+        'patches': [
+            'netcdf4-python-1.7.1.post2_relax_tolerance_compression_test.patch',
+        ],
+        'source_tmpl': 'netcdf4-%(version)s.tar.gz',
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/n/netCDF4'],
+        'checksums': [
+            {'netcdf4-1.7.1.post2.tar.gz': '37d557e36654889d7020192bfb56f9d5f93894cb32997eb837ae586c538fd7b6'},
+            {'netcdf4-python-1.7.1.post2_relax_tolerance_compression_test.patch':
+             '7faa7e839ad1e816ffd0153e4b76b43ebce3e14d35f0534f812168dfaa78316c'},
+        ],
+    }),
+]
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ['bin/nc3tonc4', 'bin/nc4tonc3', 'bin/ncinfo'],
+    'dirs': ['lib/python%(pyshortver)s/site-packages'],
+}
+
+sanity_check_commands = [
+    "nc4tonc3 --help",
+    "nc3tonc4 --help",
+    "ncinfo --help",
+]
+
+moduleclass = 'data'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/n/netcdf4-python/netcdf4-python-1.7.1.post2_relax_tolerance_compression_test.patch b/easybuild/easyconfigs/n/netcdf4-python/netcdf4-python-1.7.1.post2_relax_tolerance_compression_test.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..be4deb77f96d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/n/netcdf4-python/netcdf4-python-1.7.1.post2_relax_tolerance_compression_test.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+# Relax tolerance in the compression_szip test to avoid fails on some systems.
+# author: maxim-masterov (SURF)
+#
+diff -Nru netcdf4-1.7.1.post2.orig/test/test_compression_szip.py netcdf4-1.7.1.post2/test/test_compression_szip.py
+--- netcdf4-1.7.1.post2.orig/test/test_compression_szip.py	2024-10-07 16:01:21.276893761 +0200
++++ netcdf4-1.7.1.post2/test/test_compression_szip.py	2024-10-07 16:27:47.424436617 +0200
+@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
+         assert_almost_equal(datarr,f.variables['data'][:])
+         assert f.variables['data'].filters() ==\
+         {'zlib':False,'szip':False,'zstd':False,'bzip2':False,'blosc':False,'shuffle':False,'complevel':0,'fletcher32':False}
+-        assert_almost_equal(datarr,f.variables['data_szip'][:])
++        assert_almost_equal(datarr,f.variables['data_szip'][:], 6)
+         dtest = {'zlib': False, 'szip': {'coding': 'ec', 'pixels_per_block': 32}, 'zstd': False, 'bzip2': False, 'blosc': False, 'shuffle': False, 'complevel': 0, 'fletcher32': False}
+         assert f.variables['data_szip'].filters() == dtest
+         f.close()
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/PnetCDF/PnetCDF-1.13.0-gompi-2024a.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/PnetCDF/PnetCDF-1.13.0-gompi-2024a.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b586cfd0da4b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/PnetCDF/PnetCDF-1.13.0-gompi-2024a.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+easyblock = 'ConfigureMake'
+
+name = 'PnetCDF'
+version = '1.13.0'
+
+homepage = 'https://parallel-netcdf.github.io/'
+description = "Parallel netCDF: A Parallel I/O Library for NetCDF File Access"
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'gompi', 'version': '2024a'}
+
+source_urls = ['https://parallel-netcdf.github.io/Release']
+sources = [SOURCELOWER_TAR_GZ]
+checksums = ['aba0f1c77a51990ba359d0f6388569ff77e530ee574e40592a1e206ed9b2c491']
+
+builddependencies = [
+    ('Autotools', '20231222'),
+    ('Perl', '5.38.2'),
+]
+
+preconfigopts = "autoreconf -f -i && "
+configopts = [
+    '',
+    '--enable-shared',
+]
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ['bin/%s' % x for x in ['ncmpidiff', 'ncmpidump', 'ncmpigen', 'ncoffsets',
+                                     'ncvalidator', 'pnetcdf-config', 'pnetcdf_version']] +
+             ['lib/lib%(namelower)s.a', 'lib/lib%%(namelower)s.%s' % SHLIB_EXT],
+    'dirs': ['include'],
+}
+
+modextrapaths = {'PNETCDF': ''}
+
+moduleclass = 'data'