Unidata / EC-netCDF-CF

EarthCube: Advancing netCDF-CF Project

EarthCube Advancing netCDF-CF Project

The main goals of the EarthCube "Advancing netCDF-CF for the Geoscience Community" project are to work with the existing netCDF-CF community to:

• Increase the range of geoscience domains using netCDF-CF and active in the community

• Extend the netCDF-CF standard to support data from a wider range of geoscience domains

• Collaborate with other standards groups such as the OGC, ESIP, RDA, and NASA ESDS

The project will gather scientific use-cases and example datasets to guide the drafting of documents detailing enhancements to the CF standard. Close collaboration with the existing netCDF-CF community and engagement with new geoscience domains as well as other standards groups will lead to strong community agreement around the proposed enhancements.

Current Proposals

Geometries Proposal:

• Proposal text:

  • See the new "Geometries" section of CF chapter 7 "Data Representative of Cells" GitHub Asciidoc here.

  • Discussion of the proposal took place on GitHub PR #115 and on CF Trac Ticket #164.

• Status: Accepted for CF 1.8

• Software Implementations: Python and R (prototypes)

Satellite Swath Proposal:

• Proposal Text

• Status: Request for Comment to CF email list (here).

CF2-Group Proposal:

• Proposal Text

• Status: Request for Comment to CF email list (here).

Proposals under development

Quantification of Uncertainty:

• Proposal text (Google Doc)

• Status: Under development