Abstract
The CF (Climate and Forecast) Conventions are a community-developed
metadata standard for storing and describing Earth system science data
in the netCDF binary data format. Numerous existing FOSS (Free and Open
Source Software) and commercial software tools can explore, analyze, and
visualize data that is encoded using the CF Conventions. The CF
community holds annual workshops to develop, refine, and review
enhancements to the CF Conventions and to manage the CF governance and
processes. The EarthCube netCDF-CF project worked with the CF community
on the development of extensions to netCDF-CF. Several of these have
been accepted into the CF Conventions. Work on these extensions involved
broad participation by members of the existing netCDF-CF community as
well as members of science domains not traditionally represented in the
netCDF-CF community. This presentation will provide an update of recent
work and an overview of CF plans and future activities.