A Way to Represent Earth System Grids

GRIDSPEC/libcf

Recently the libcf library has been expanded to support the GRIDSPEC standard, developed at GFDL.

The point of GRIDSPEC is to allow producers of gridded data sets to exactly specify their grids, in a way that allows for conservative regridding.

The GRIDSPEC code in libcf is based on the code of Zhi Liang, at GFDL, who is now directly contributing to libcf development, with an account in the cvs repository.

All of this GRIDSPEC work has prompted NOAA's Global Interoperability Program to send some support funding to Unidata, which is very welcome here.