CF Governance

Governance Documents

• Rules for making changes to the CF Conventions
  • Discussion about these rules can be found in the CF mailing list archives, in June and July, 2007. See messages with the subject line “proposed rules for changes to CF conventions”.
  • The rules were amended in January 2016 following CF trac ticket 146
• Rules for correcting errors in the CF documents
• CF constitution
• CF white paper (Lawrence et al., 2006) [ PDF, HTML ]

Conventions Committee and Standard Names Committee

(The date of the end of each member’s present term appears in parentheses)

• Lars Bärring (12 Apr 2026)
• David Blodgett (30 Sep 2023)
• Philip Cameron-Smith (29 May 2025)
• Fran Eggleton (12 Apr 2026)
• Nan Galbraith (29 May 2025)
• John Graybeal (29 May 2025)
• Jonathan Gregory (chair of CF Committees, 6 July 2024) (29 May 2025)
• David Hassell (secretary of the Conventions Committee) (31 March 2022)
• Martin Juckes (12 Apr 2026)
• Daniel Lee (30 Sep 2024)
• Roy Lowry (29 May 2025)
• Alison Pamment (secretary of Standard Names Committee) (29 May 2025)
• Karl Taylor (29 May 2025)

Governance Panel

• Fanny Adloff
• Ethan Davis (chair)
• Jonathan Gregory
• Bryan Lawrence
• Daniel Lee
• Karl Taylor

CF Governance Panel meeting minutes

Information Management and Support Team

• Martin Desruisseaux (Geomatys)
• Fran Eggleton (UK Met Office)
• John Graybeal (Stanford University)
• David Hassell (University of Reading)
• Rosalyn Hatcher (University of Reading)
• Richard Hattersley (UK Met Office)
• Mark Hedley (UK Met Office)
• Alison Pamment (CEDA)
• Sadie Bartholomew (University of Reading)

Former Committee, Panel and Team Members

• Balaji (Conventions)
• Jim Biard (Conventions)
• John Caron (Conventions)
• Michel Crucifix (Standard Names)
• Burkhardt Rockel (Standard Names)
• Christiane Textor (Standard Names)
• Dave Bader (Governance)
• Tom Gross (Conventions)
• Manuel Fuentes (Standard Names)
• Kyle Halliday (Information Management and Support)
• Heinke Höck (Standard Names)
• Steve Hankin (Conventions and Governance)
• Bryan Lawrence (Standard Names)
• Velimir Mlaker (Information Management and Support)
• Jeff Painter (Information Management and Support)
• Tanya Reshel (Information Management and Support)
• Russ Rew (Conventions and Governance)
• Martin Schultz (Conventions)
• Rich Signell (Governance and Standard Names)
• Karl Taylor (Governance and Conventions, former chair but present member of both)

The climate research community is indebted to the above for their magnanimous contributions in establishing and improving the CF Conventions.

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