CF Standard names
(NetCDF Climate and Forecast Metadata Convention)

• Proposals from PRISM:
  • CF guidelines for atmospheric chemistry parameters version 1.4
  • PRISM standard_names draft table version 1.3
• External links:
  • Wiki discussion page on standard names as part of an interoperbility Wiki page
  • White paper on CF on Bryan Lawrence's wiki page at BADC.
  • CF checker (by Rosalyn Hatcher at BADC)
  • Home page of CF (NetCDF Climate and Forecast Metadata Convention) // guidelines // list of accepted standard names (at UCAR)
  • New prototype CF website at LLNL.
  • The netCDF Markup Language (NcML) (Work in progress, at UCAR)
  • NetCDF and GeoGrid XML (draft, at UCAR)
  • Comparision of 3 Netcdf DTDs (by Caron at UCAR)

Please mail questions or comments to Peter van Velthoven