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<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <!--<base --> <!--href="http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs/standards.html">--> </head><body> <title>NetCDF Standards</title> <h1>Status of standards body endorsements of netCDF and related conventions</h1> <p>The netCDF format has been endorsed by several standards bodies: </p> <ul> <li>On 2009-02-05, the NASA Earth Science Data Systems (ESDS) Standards Process Group <a href="http://earthdata.nasa.gov/our-community/esdswg/standards-process-spg/rfc/esds-rfc-011-netcdf-classic">officially endorsed</a> the document <a href="http://earthdata.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/esdswg/spg/rfc/esds-rfc-011/ESDS-RFC-011v2.00.pdf">ESDS-RFC-011</a>, <strong>NetCDF Classic and 64-bit Offset File Formats</strong>, as an appropriate standard for NASA Earth Science data. </li> <li>On 2010-03-12, the Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) Data Management and Communications (DMAC) Subsystem <a href="http://www.ioos.gov/library/dmac_implementation_2010.pdf">endorsed</a> <strong>netCDF with Climate and Forecast (CF) conventions</strong> as a preferred data format.</li> <li>On 2010-09-27, the Steering Committee of the Federal Geographic Data Committee (<a href="http://www.fgdc.gov/">FGDC</a>) <a href="http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/fgdc-endorsed-external-standards/index_html">officially endorsed</a> <strong>netCDF</strong> as a "Common Encoding Standard (CES)". </li> <li>On 2010-10-18, the ESDS-RFC-021 Technical Working Group issued a <a href="http://www.esdswg.org/spg/rfc/esds-rfc-021/CF_TWG_SWAL_v02.pdf">final report</a> concluding that the NASA ESDS Standards Process Group should recommend <a href="http://www.esdswg.org/spg/rfc/esds-rfc-021/ESDS-RFC-021-v0.01.pdf">ESDS-RFC-021</a>, <strong>CF Metadata Conventions</strong>, for endorsement as a NASA Recommended Standard. </li> <li> On 2011-04-19, the Open Geospatial Consortium (<a href="http://www.opengeospatial.org/">OGC</a>) approved the OGC <strong>Network Common Data Form (netCDF) Core Encoding Standard</strong>, and <strong>NetCDF Binary Encoding Extension Standard - netCDF Classic and 64-bit Offset Format</strong> as official OGC standards. These standards are available for free download at <a href="http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/netcdf">http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/netcdf</a>. </li> <li> On 2011-11-03, the ESDS-RFC-022 Technical Working Group issued a <a href="http://earthdata.nasa.gov/our-community/esdswg/standards-process-spg/rfc/esds-rfc-022-netcdf-4-hdf5">final report</a> recommending <a href="http://earthdata.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/field/document/ESDS-RFC-022v1.pdf">ESDS-RFC-022</a>, <strong>NetCDF-4/HDF-5 File Format</strong>, for endorsement as an <a href="http://earthdata.nasa.gov/our-community/esdswg/standards-process-spg/rfc" >EOSDIS Approved Standard</a>. </li> <li>On 2012-11-16, the OGC <a href="http://www.opengeospatial.org/node/1697" >adopted</a> the netCDF Enhanced Data Model Extension to the OGC Network Common Data Form Core Encoding Standard, making netCDF-4 an official OGC standard. This standard is available for free download at <a href="http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/netcdf" >http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/netcdf</a>. </li> <li> On 2013-02-14, the OGC <a href="http://www.opengeospatial.org/node/1783" >approved</a> the Climate and Forecast (CF) extension to the NetCDF Core data model standard, making the CF metadata conventions for netCDF an official OGC standard. </li> </ul> <hr> <address></address> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript"> document.write(date_modified); </script> </body></html>