Best Practices

11.0	Overview Some best (or at least "not worst") practices have evolved for data providers and for use of netCDF.
11.1	Some General Advice for Data Providers A general list of maxims for data providers.
11.2	Purpose of Conventions Why are conventions needed, if we have standard formats?
11.3	Conventions Developers should be familiar with and use existing netCDF conventions, when practical.
11.4	Coordinate Systems Spatial and temporal location of data are supported by use of coordinate systems.
11.5	Variable Grouping How you group data into variables can determine whether common analysis and visualization software can effectively use the data.
11.6	Variable Attributes Conventional variable attributes supply necessary metadata.
11.7	Calendar Date and Time Represent calendar dates and times with standards and conventions.
11.8	Packed Data Values Conventions for packed netCDF data use a smaller data type to save space for low-precision data, for example, packing doubles into shorts.
11.9	Missing Data Values To indicate that data values are missing, invalid, or not written, special values are conventionally used.
11.10	Summary Things to remember about netCDF best practices.