Metadata and format

Mandatory metadata (see CF convention for more details)

  • title
  • institution
  • source
  • history
  • references
  • comment

Other

  • 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 *
  • DOI : Dataset identify number *

*whenever occurs

Output format in ECCAD

  • Files naming convention
    • <dataset>_<geoZone>_<resoLat x resoLon>_<category>_<parametre>_<version>.nc
  • Format
    • NetCDF-4

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