CF Conventions

CF Standard Names

Other

• CF 1.6
• HTML, multi-page
  
• HTML, single-page
• PDF
• CF 1.5
• HTML, multi-page
• HTML, single-page
• PDF
• CF 1.4
• HTML, multi-page
• HTML, single-page
• PDF
• CF 1.3
• HTML, multi-page
• HTML, single-page
• PDF
• CF 1.2
• HTML, multi-page
• HTML, single-page
• PDF
• CF 1.1
• HTML, multi-page
• HTML, single-page
• PDF
• CF 1.0
• HTML, multi-page
• HTML, single-page
• PDF

• Standard Name Table (v23, 23 March 2013)
  
• HTML, single-page
• XML
• Previous versions
• HTML  v1, v2, v3, v4, v5, v6, v7, v8, v9, v10, v11, v12, v13, v14, v15, v16, v17, v18, v19, v20, v21, v22
• XML  v1, v2, v3, v4, v5, v6, v7, v8, v9, v10, v11, v12, v13, v14, v15, v16, v17, v18, v19, v20, v21, v22
• Area Type Table (v1, 5 December 2008)
• HTML, single-page
  
• XML
  
• Equivalences of Draft and Current Standard Names (as of 18 December 2002)
  

• About the Standard Name Table
• Guidelines for Construction of CF Standard Names
• Mappings to other parameter tables
• ECMWF GRIB codes
• NCEP GRIB codes
• PCMDI standard variable names
  
• Proposals for new standard names
• Requests for clarification or for new names should be posted to the cf-metadata mailing list. We would also like to acknowledge the many contributors to the standard name table.
• Current status of proposals for new standard names
  
• Archive of resolved proposals for new standard names (from March 2011 onwards)
  

• CF Governance and Committees
• CF governance document (2006) [PDF, HTML]

• Rules for changing CF Conventions
• Rules for correcting the CF documents
• Early draft of governance white paper (2005)
• Comments on draft
• CF Overview and Impact
• Poster and abstract - Hankin et al. (2008)
• Viewgraphs - Balaji et al. (2008)
• Summary text - Gregory (2005)
• Article - Gregory (2003)
• Viewgraphs - Gregory (2003)