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The Climate and Forecast (CF) [[metadata]] conventions are conventions for the description of [[Earth sciences]] data, intended to promote the processing and sharing of [[data file]]s. The metadata defined by the CF conventions canare begenerally included in the same file as the data, (thus making the file "self-describing"). The conventions provide a definitive description of what the data values found in each variable[[NetCDF]] representsrepresent, and of the spatial and temporal properties of the data, (including information about grids, such as grid cell bounds and cell averaging methods). This enables users of datafiles from different sources to decide which datavariables are comparable, and is a basis for building software applications with powerful [[data extraction]], grid remapping, [[data analysis]], and [[data visualization]] capabilities.

==History and Evolution==

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| title = Maintaining and Advancing the CF Standard for Earth System Science Community Data

| url = http://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/documents/white-papers/cf2_whitepaper_final.html

}}</ref>. In December 2008 the trio of standards, netCDF+CF+OPeNDAP, was been adopted by [[IOOS]] as a recommended standard (number 08-012) for the representation and transport of gridded data. The CF conventions are being considered by the [[NASA]] Standards Process Group (SPG) and others as more broadly applicable standards <ref>{{cite article

| author = Rew, Russ

| year = 2010