Re: [galeon] Fwd: [Tc] OGC Approves Climate and Forecast (CF) extension to NetCDF Core data model standard

• To: Ben Domenico <ben@xxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: [galeon] Fwd: [Tc] OGC Approves Climate and Forecast (CF) extension to NetCDF Core data model standard
• From: Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal <roy.mendelssohn@xxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:39:46 -0800

Congrats on a job well done.  This comes close to completing the stack if 
memory serves.

-Roy

On Feb 14, 2013, at 12:44 PM, Ben Domenico <ben@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> *OGC Approves Climate and Forecast (CF) extension to NetCDF Core data
> model standard*
> 
> 14 February 2013 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership
> has adopted the OGC CF-netCDF Data Model extension to the existing OGC
> Network Common Data Form (NetCDF) Core Encoding Standard version 1.0.
> 
> The CF-netCDF Data Model is a flexible data model widely used in
> climate and weather forecast systems and in other geoscience
> communities. The CF conventions define metadata that provide a
> definitive description of what the data in each netCDF variable
> represents, and the spatial and temporal properties of the data. This
> enables users of data from different sources to decide which
> quantities are comparable, and facilitates building applications with
> powerful extraction, regridding, and display capabilities. The
> candidate CF-netCDF Data Model extension to the existing OGC Network
> Common Data Form (NetCDF) Core Encoding Standard version 1.0 is the
> latest step in a longer-term plan for establishing CF-netCDF as an OGC
> standard for binary encoding. This will enable standard delivery of
> data in binary form via several OGC service interface standards,
> including the OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS), Web Feature Service
> (WFS), and Sensor Observation Service (SOS) Interface Standards.
> 
> The OGC CF-netCDF encoding supports electronic encoding of geospatial
> data, specifically digital geospatial information representing space-
> and time-varying phenomena. NetCDF (network Common Data Form) is
> widely used internationally to communicate and store many kinds of
> multidimensional data, although it was originally developed for the
> Earth science community. The NetCDF data model is particularly well
> suited to providing data in forms familiar to atmospheric and oceanic
> scientists: namely, as sets of related arrays.
> 
> NetCDF was developed and is maintained and actively supported by the
> Unidata Program Center of the University Corporation for Atmospheric
> Research (UCAR) (www.unidata.ucar.edu <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/>
> ), and UCAR is the OGC member that submitted this candidate standard
> to the OGC. The OGC NetCDF Core Encoding Standard has been formally
> recognized by US Government NASA and NOAA standards bodies. UCAR and
> other OGC members introduced the first NetCDF specification as a
> candidate OGC standard to encourage broader international use and
> greater interoperability among clients and servers interchanging data
> in binary form.
> 
> The CF-netCDF Data Model extension to the existing OGC Network Common
> Data Form (NetCDF) Core Encoding Standard version 1.0 is available
> along with other netCDF standards and a netCDF Primer at
> http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/netcdf
>  .
> 
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> government agencies, research organizations, and universities
> participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available
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  • [galeon] Fwd: [Tc] OGC Approves Climate and Forecast (CF) extension to NetCDF Core data model standard
    • From: Ben Domenico