2019 netCDF-CF Workshop

The Climate and Forecast (CF) metadata convention for netCDF (netCDF-CF) is a community-developed standard first released in 2003. The CF conventions were originally developed to represent climate and forecast model output encoded in the netCDF binary format, with the specific goal of facilitating comparison of output from different models. Subsequent development of the convention has broadened its scope to include observational data and derived products.

This workshop is focused on discussing current and future efforts and directions for the CF conventions.

This two days workshop took place on 16 & 17 July 2019 as four sessions of the 2019 ESIP Summer Meeting in Tacoma, WA (USA).

Agenda

Tuesday, July 16 - 16:30 - 18:00: Welcome

16:30 - Introductions, Workshop Plans, and Goals (Jessica Hausmann)
17:00 - Summary of 2018 workshop - discussions, decisions, and status (Ethan Davis)
17:30 - Review recent discussions of CF Governance and Process (Daniel Lee)

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Wednesday, July 17 - 8:30 - 10:00: Governance and evolution

8:30 - CF Governance, Roles, and Process
9:00 - GitHub process - where we are and where we want to be
9:30 - Way forward

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Wednesday, July 17 - 10:30 - 12:00: Recent and Current Proposals

5 minute talks on current proposals:

10:30 - Welcome
10:35 - Groups (Daniel Lee)
10:40 - UGRID (Rich Signell)
10:45 - Satellite Swath (Aleksandar Jelenak)
10:50 - Linked Data with netCDF
10:55 - Representing uncertainties (Ken Kehoe)
11:00 - External variables (David Hassell)
11:05 - Geomeries (Tim Whiteaker)
11:10 - DOI Attribute (DOI of the data) (Guilherme Castelao)
11:15 - Requirements related to specific standard names (Martin Juckes)
11:20 - Bibliography and PDF improvements (Klaus Zimmermann)
11:25 - Clarification of time coordinate requirements (Martin Juckes)
11:30 - Discussions and decisions

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Wednesday, July 17 - 1:30pm - 3:00pm: Other Business and Wrap-Up

13:30 - UDUNITS (Ethan Davis)
13:45 - Calendars (Ethan Davis)
14:00 - Leap seconds (Jim Biard)
14:15 - CF in the cloud (Aleksandar Jelenak)
14:30 - Next steps (Ethan Davis)

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Summary and Key Decisions

Discussion