Climate and Forecast Metadata Conventions: Difference between revisions

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| title = The CF metadata standard

| url = http://cfconventions.org/Data/cf-documents/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|access-date=2010-06-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527095818/http://ferret.wrc.noaa.gov/noaa_coop/coop_cdf_profile.html|archive-date=2010-05-27|deadurl-url=yes|dfstatus=dead}}</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

| 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

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}}</ref> In December 2008 the trio of standards, netCDF+CF+OPeNDAP, was 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 news

| author = Rew, Russ

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| title = CF Metadata Conventions

| url = http://earthdata.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/esdswg/spg/rfc/esds-rfc-021/ESDS-RFC-021-v0.01.pdf

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<ref>{{cite news

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| url = http://archive.niees.ac.uk/talks/metadata/Bob_Drach_talk.ppt

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</ref> The CF conventions have also been used to describe the physical fields transferred between individual Earth system model [[software components]], such as atmosphere and ocean components, as the model runs

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| 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

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}}</ref> 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.