Documentation Cluster - November Telecon

1)      CfRadial – Joe VanAndel

·         For radial technology like radar and LiDAR

·         CfRadial provides an extension to CF for radial data

·         Data fields = moments = collection of ‘rays’ – each of which have metadata

·         Different metadata/coordinate convention for different platform (aerial, mobile LiDAR, stationary)

·         CfRadial was submitted to the CF list over 1 year ago – not sure about progress towards standard

·         Ted recommended looking into ACDD (attribute conventions for data discovery) and NODC’s

·         Not sure if variable names have been submitted as standard names in CF

·         Trying to agree on attribute use and ways of store data

·         Ed wanted the slides to share with next SWAT radiar mission (ACTION – Joe send pdf)

2)      January Meeting

·         Will talk about ISO later

·         CF Unleashed  - The goal of the session is to introduce applications of the CF Conventions outside of the traditional climate/forecast/gridded data realm

                                                               i.      4 x 20min talks

                                                             ii.      Aleksandar – NetCDF satellite data (with use cases)

                                                            iii.      Ed – GRIS level 1

                                                           iv.      Possibly combine Aleksandar and Ed’s talks… TBA

                                                             v.      Joe – longer presentation of CfRadial with use cases

                                                           vi.      Ken Casey or Chris  (NODC) – Ted will ask if they want to ask if they want to participate - ACTION

3)      October Action Items

A.      Ted will add a paragraph on the wiki about the sensor-instrument and channel-band issue

·         moved to next month

B.       Joe will write a wiki page for CF radial and include a small section on the Metadata Dialects page

·         Doesn’t yet have access to the wiki – moved to next month

C.       Kelly send proposed January meeting sessions to documentation list

·         Done

D.      Kelly finish metadata dialects wiki page

·         Ted updated

4)      CF Sting Syntax (Ed)

·         This was emailed out on the CF metadata mailing list

·         It is a way of using syntax to assign values to new coordinate methods to CF stand names

·         Ex. SST + wind – use x_wind à syntax use height (ex. 10m)

·         Proposed by Nan

·         Allows for human-machine and machine-machine communication

Next meeting Dec 19th noon EST