Climate and Forecast Metadata Conventions: Difference between revisions

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===Supported Data Types===

CF is intended for use with [[state estimation]] and [[forecasting]] data, in the atmosphere, ocean, and other physical domains. It was designed primarily to address gridded data types such as [[numerical weather prediction]] model outputs and [[climatology]] data in which [[data binning]] is used to impose a regular structure .<ref>{{cite news

| author = V. Balaji

| year = 2008

| title = Metadata Standards for Gridded Climate Data in the Earth System Grid

| url = http://esdswg.eosdis.nasa.gov/WG/SPG/pdf/esdswg-cf-balaji.pdf

.}}</ref><ref name="crwr.utexas" /> However, the CF conventions are also applicable to many classes of [[observational data]] and have been adopted by a number of groups for such applications.

}}</ref>

.<ref name="crwr.utexas" /> However, the CF conventions are also applicable to many classes of [[observational data]] and have been adopted by a number of groups for such applications.

===Supported Data Formats===