CF Conformance Requirements and Recommendations 1.2

 

 

2.1 Filename

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2.2 Data Types

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2.3 Naming Conventions

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2.4 Dimensions

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2.5.1 Missing Data

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2.6.1 Identification of Conventions

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2.6.2 Description of File Contents

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3 Description of the Data

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3.1 Units

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3.3 Standard Name

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3.5 Flags

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4 Coordinate Types

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4.3 Vertical (height or depth) Coordinate

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4.3.2 Dimensionless Vertical Coordinates

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4.4 Time Coordinate

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4.4.1 Calendar

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5 Coordinate Systems

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5.6 Grid Mappings and Projections

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6.1 Labels

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7.1 Cell Boundaries

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7.2 Cell Measures

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7.3 Cell Methods

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7.4 Climatological Statistics

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8.1 Packed Data

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8.2 Compression by Gathering

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