Recommendation for Metadata

Data provenance: title, institution, source, history, references, comment, Conventions (see CF convention)

Contacts : name, surname, email

Abstract : short text describing the dataset

Methodology : Detailed description of the methodology used to create the data

Documentation : URL link to data documentation *

Data original site : URL link to the origin site where the data can be found *

ReadMe file : recommendation for data file manipulation *

*whenever occurs

Data file

Naming convention [ Dataset ]_[ Geographical Coverage ]_[ Resolution LatxLon ]_[ Category ]_[ Parametre ]_[ Version ].nc

Format NetCDF-4

Global attributes Data provenance