LibCF, the NetCDF Library for the Climate and Forecast (CF) Conventions

24.0 LibCF, the NetCDF Library for the Climate and Forecast (CF) Conventions

The new LibCF library supports the Climate and Forecast Conventions for metadata.

The NetCDF Climate and Forecast (CF) Metadata Conventions document (v1.0, Oct., 2003) describes a set of conventions for an important class of netCDF data.
Conventions were developed by Brian Eaton (NCAR), Jonathan Gregory (Hadley Centre, UK Met Office), Bob Drach (PCMDI, LLNL), Karl Taylor (PCMDI, LLNL), and Steve Hankin (PMEL, NOAA).
Climate user community seems to be adopting CF as the de-facto standard way to store and share climate dataset.
CF conventions are evolving, and a CF goverance structure manages the growth and development of CF.
New extensions to handle new categories of data are under review. LibCF is playing a part in this process.
We invite you to contribute any freeware code you may have (or may write) in to handle the CF conventions.