Introduction
(include an explanation about previous conventions.... SPECS, CF, ACDD)
During these first stages of the proof-of-concept phase of C3S seasonal forecast activity, we have been working in standardise the data provision in netCDF.
The proposal is constrained by the CF convention, and we have tried not to diverge from specifications coming other well established communities: SPECS and CMIP5/6
Additionally ACDD has been also taken into account when defining the data discovery related metadata.
In that sense, the following links are valuable sources of information that have informed the definition of this proposal:
CF convention standard names tables
SPECS file content and format, data structure and metadata
ACDD conventioninclude link to standard names, and list of variables...
Encoding Guide
Global attributes
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