Climate and Forecast Metadata Conventions: Difference between revisions

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| title = The CF metadata standard

| url = http://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/documents/other/cf_overview_article.pdf

}}</ref> The conventions contained generalizations and extensions to the earlier Cooperative Ocean/Atmosphere Research Data Service (COARDS) conventions <ref>{{cite web|url=http://ferret.wrc.noaa.gov/noaa_coop/coop_cdf_profile.html|title=Conventions for the Standardization of NetCDF files|date=May, 1995}}</ref> and the Gregory/Drach/Tett (GDT) conventions.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www-pcmdi.llnl.gov/drach/GDT_convention.html|title=GDT netCDF conventions for climate data, version 1.3|date=March 14, 1999}}</ref> As the scope of the CF conventions grew along with its user base, the CF community adopted an [[open governance]] model.<ref>{{cite news

| author = Lawrence, B.N.

| year = 2003

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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 name="crwr.utexas" /><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.

===Supported Data Formats===