2012 Unidata NetCDF Workshop > Best Practices for Data providers
20.0 Overview
Some best (or at least "not worst") practices have evolved
for data providers and for use of netCDF.
Disclaimer: the best sources for best practices are practitioners, not
developers. I'm a developer ...
- General advice for data providers
- Conventions
- Coordinate systems
- Appropriate use of variables
- Use of attributes versus variables
- Strings
- Dates and time
- Packed data
- Missing data and fill values
- Conventions development
2012 Unidata NetCDF Workshop > Best Practices for Data providers