[netcdfgroup] NetCDF Product Format Specification

NcML and CDL are able to provide a human readable description of a particular 
instance of a product but are not designed to describe a more generic product 
format specification.

The format specification would need to handle elements with values only known 
at runtime (dimensions, scaling and offset attributes, etc.), the NetCDF model 
used, the underlying storage layer, aspects of chunking and compression, etc. 
Basically everything you'd want to be able to construct NetCDF product 
instances.

Having looked at a number of NetCDF format description documents, there doesn't 
seem to be a standard way of describing a NetCDF format specification. In 
general, the specification  authors resort to either breaking the format into a 
tabulated description or using a modified/annotated NcML or CDL. 

Is there a preferred or standard way of describing NetCDF formats or has 
anybody looked at developing something like a standard XML product 
specification to do this?

Best regards,

Tim Patterson

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Product Engineering/Test Data Coordination
MTG Programme
GEO  Division

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