The CF (Climate and Forecast) Conventions are a community-developed standard for describing Earth system science data using netCDF. The CF Conventions can encode information that describes a coordinate system, data structure (e.g., station, sounding, gridded), and the geophysical meaning and units of each variable. It is widely used by weather and climate scientists and remote-sensing researchers and is gaining traction in new communities, such as biogeochemistry and operational weather prediction.

This session will focus on efforts to extend the existing CF metadata conventions; recent advances in the broader netCDF ecosystem; and engagement with interested international organizations and standards bodies.