The Climate and Forecast metadata conventions (CF) are a community-developed standard designed to promote the processing and sharing of climate and forecast model and observational output data, and derived data products. The conventions define metadata that provide a definitive description of what the data in each variable represents, and the spatial and temporal properties of the data. This enables users of data from different sources to decide which quantities are comparable, and facilitates building applications with powerful extraction, regridding, and display capabilities. The CF convention includes a standard name table, which defines strings that identify physical quantities.
2022 CF Workshop will take place on 13-15 September 2022 hosted by IFCA at Santander (Spain). After 2 successful virtual editions (2020 and 2021), the 2022 edition is organized as a hybrid event having in-person and on-line participants.
There are no registration fees, but registration before 30th of August is required.
You can register using this form.
The workshop takes place at IFCA which it’s located at University of Cantabria Campus in the city of Santander (Spain). Take a look at IFCA’s “street view”!
Please check details on how to arrive to IFCA
Use the following link to access the Zoom Room for the plenary sessions:
For hackatons sessions, an Auxiliary Zoom Room will be use, in addition to the Main Zoom Room:
Please, be sure your name on Zoom follows this pattern:
CF MetaData
Firstname M. Lastname (Institution, Country)
You can find some instructions on how to change your name on Zoom here
All of the presentations and notes for the plenary and hackathon sessions will be available in this Google Drive folder.
All times are local to Santander, i.e. UTC+2
09:30 - Welcome, logistics, and introduction (Antonio S. Cofiño)
10:00 - Review of CF-1.10 (David Hassell)
10:30 - CF training: Overview and discussion (Sadie Bartholomew)
11:00 - Coffee break
11:30 - CF to BUFR/WMO (Kevin O’Brien)
11:45 - How we describe our variables (Alison Pamment)
12:30 - Standard name challenges in the carbon community (Steve Jones)
13:00 - Lunch
16:30 - Coffee break
17:00 - Parallel hackathon sessions (continued)
09:30 - Tuesday recap and discussion
09:45 - netCDF/Zarr (Ethan Davis)
10:15 - Geometries and Grids (Antonio S. Cofiño)
11:00 - Coffee break
11:30 - Compression (Bryan Lawrence)
11:50 - Lossy compression: The netCDF implementation and towards encoding precision (Charlie Zender)
12:20 - Compression: Discussion
13:00 - Lunch
16:30 - Coffee break
17:00 - Parallel hackathon sessions (continued)
09:45 - Wednesday recap and discussion
10:00 - Dataset DOIs: Discussion
11:00 - Coffee break
13:00 - Lunch
15:00 - Hackathon debriefings
16:00 - Coffee break
16:30 - Wrap-up, conclusions, and actions (Antonio S. Cofiño)
In the week prior to the CF Workshop there will be a virtual training event designed for users new or fairly new to CF, which may well be useful to those with more experience, too. The training will last for 3 hours and will take place on Thursday 8th September, 1500 - 1800 UTC.
Details of training programme can be found at the training section of the CF website.
Pre-registration for the on-line training event is not essential, but to help us with planning please tick the corresponding checkbox, in the registration form, if you would be interested in attending.
For those unable to attend the event itself, the content (including videos of the presentations) will be accessable from the training section of the CF website.
More details at: https://github.com/cf-convention/discuss/issues/158
We will devote roughly half of the time on each day to focused-attention hackathons, during which it is hoped that concrete progress on each topic can be made (such as actual changes suggested to the Conventions text). On each day, two hackathon sessions will run in parallel.
Please express an interest in any number of these sessions, in the registration form, or suggest a new topic that could be included, with a suggestion of who you think could lead the discussion.
More details at: https://github.com/cf-convention/discuss/issues/152
During the CF Workshop there will be displays for poster contributions from participants. There will be no formal poster session, but posters are expected to be chatted about informally during breaks.
To help us with planning, please check the “Other” box, in the registration form, and provided a tentative title, if you would be interested to bring your poster.
Thanks for their support of this meeting to:
IS-ENES3 which is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 824084
CORDyS funded by the Spanish MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 (PID2020-116595RB-100)
Institute of Physics of Cantabria (IFCA, CSIC-UC)
