Section: 9.2 Where is CF Metadata Used?

9.2 Where is CF Metadata Used?

The use of CF metadata is growing.

Widely used and accepted in the climate community
- World Climate Research Programme's (WCRP's) Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 3 (CMIP3) multi-model dataset, used by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group 1
- Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project (PMIP), Hemispheric Transport of Air Pollution (HTAP), regional groups, EU-funded ENSEMBLES prediction system for climate change, ...
- Planned use in model archives for next IPCC cycle (CMIP5/AR5)
Widely adopted in other netCDF archives for atmosphere, oceans, and surface data: ESMF, GFDL, Hadley Centre, NCAR, NOAA, ...
Supported by various software packages with facilities for analyzing, visualizing, subsetting, regridding, and aggregating data