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CF Metadata Conventions

• CF metadata conventions
• CEDA overview of CF convention
• CF standard names
• Guidelines for construction of standard names
• Attributes covered by CF
• CEDA example global attributes
• CF Area Types
• CF Standardized Regions

MONC variables etc

• MONC data fields - variables

NetCDF

• Documentation
• Users Guide Note: links to appendices A & B don't work. Look here instead:
  • Appendix A
  • Appendix B

Related Scripts

• CEDA's cf-checker
• Could build on strategy used here.
• Vocabulary for variables in Leif Denby's work here, but unsure of some of the names' correctness.
• Earth science data analysis/visualisation Python packages, Iris and cf-python (seems to not yet be available from Conda for Mac OS for Apple CPUs), implement CF-compliant data models.

Example Files (JASMIN)

• 0-2d: /gws/nopw/j04/eurec4auk/monc_prelim_output/eurec4a_jan28
• 3d: /gws/nopw/j04/eurec4auk/monc_prelim_output/jan_28_3d