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Matt -- I think you're right -- CF grew out of COARDS which was "done" in the early 90s. Like many "projects" that become "data providers" without expecting to....and so they create metadata that makes sense for their (closed) environment. tom On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 8:06 PM, Matthew Foster <Matthew.Foster@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > I think a big part of the problem with AWIPS NetCDF is that AWIPS predates > the CF convention by quite a bit (it looks like CF 1.0 came out in 2003) and > even predates COARDS (1995?). There was probably some other convention > around when AWIPS (WFO-Advanced) was under development, but I don't know > what that would be. > > I could be mistaken in my timeline. Feel free to correct me if I have it > wrong. > > Matt @ OUN > -- Tom Whittaker University of Wisconsin-Madison Space Science & Engineering Center (SSEC) Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) 1225 W. Dayton Street Madison, WI 53706 USA ph: +1 608 262 2759
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