The 2025 CF Workshop will be held virtually on 22-25 September 2025. The meeting will run for three hours on each day, 15:00 to 18:00 UTC, plus an informal hour at the end of each day.
To participate, please register here.
| Time (UTC) | Session | Presenters |
|---|---|---|
| 15:00 - 15:10 | Welcome and Overview of meeting structure | David Hassell (NCAS / University of Reading) |
| 15.10 - 15.40 | Introduction to CF, what’s going into CF 1.13 | Introduction: Ellie Fisher (Centre for Environmental Data Analysis / NCAS); CF-1,13: Sadie Bartholomew (NCAS / University of Reading) |
| 15.40 - 15.55 | Science talk | Jack Atkinson (ICCS Cambridge), TBD |
| 15.55 - 16.10 | Science talk | Mario Diez Fernandez (University of Cantabria), Evaluating Large Language Models for Standard Names Generation in CF Conventions |
| 16.10 - 16.25 | Screen break / coffee break | N/A |
| 16.25 - 16.35 | Introductions to Day 1 hackathons | All hackathon chairs |
| 16:35 - 18.00 | HACKATHONS (Parallel sessions) | Chris Barker, SGRID Conventions; Alison Pamment (NCAS / CEDA), Improvements/clarifications to precipitation-related standard names; Guilherme Castelao, Making energy datasets CF-compliant |
| 18.00 - 18.45 | Social time | N/A |
| Time (UTC) | Session | Presenters |
|---|---|---|
| 15:00 - 15.10 | Intro to day 2 | N/A |
| 15.10 - 15.30 | Governance updates, round-up of recent developments | Ethan Davis (NSF Unidata) |
| 15.30 - 15.50 | Science talk | Adam Jacobs (UK Met Office), Tools for mapping between NetCDF and GRIB |
| 15.50 - 16.00 | Introductions to Day 2 hackathons | All hackathon chairs |
| 16.10 - 16.25 | Screen break / coffee break | N/A |
| 16:25 - 17.30 | HACKATHONS (Parallel sessions) | Sebastien Villaume (ECMWF), Mapping CF Metadata and WMO GRIB2 Metadata; TBD, “Housekeeping” - website maintenance & improvements; Sadie Bartholomew (NCAS / University of Reading), Colour blindness accessibility of CF Convention document figures & tables |
| 17.30 - 18.00 | Day 1 and 2 hackathon wrap-ups | All hackathon chairs |
| 18.00 - 18.45 | Social time | N/A |
| Time (UTC) | Session | Presenters |
|---|---|---|
| 15.00 - 15.30 | Roadmap introduction / recap (What is the roadmap? Why do we need it? Which communities are we engaging with? What did we do last year?) |
Luke Marsden (Norwegian Meteorological Institute/University Centre in Svalbard) |
| 15.30 - 15.45 | Introductions to Day 3 (roadmap) hackathons | All hackathon chairs |
| 15:45 - 17:30 | Roadmap HACKATHONS (Parallel sessions) to include a break 16:45-17:00 | Vocabularies (Alison Pamment); Discovery and Provenance metadata (TBD); Example data sets (Luke Marsden and Ag Stephens) |
| 17.30 - 18.15 | Social time | N/A |
| Time (UTC) | Session | Presenters |
|---|---|---|
| 15.00 - 15.15 | Introductions to Day 4 (roadmap) hackathons | All hackathon chairs |
| 15:15 - 17.00 | Roadmap HACKATHONS (Parallel sessions) (includes screen break 16.30 - 16.40) |
File formats/data model (Sadie Bartholomew); AI (LLMs - Ag Stephens); CF tools (David Hassell) |
| 17.00 - 18.00 | Roadmap hackathons wrap up and next steps | All hackathon chairs |
| 18.00 - 18.45 | Social time | N/A |
See the “Call for Hackathons” (Discussion #422) for to propose a topic and to review already proposed topics.
Participants should review the CF Code of Conduct.
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