ACDD | Attribute Convention for Dataset Discovery |
ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
attribute | HDF5 attribute or netCDF attribute |
API | Application Program Interface |
CCB | Configuration Change Board |
CCR | Configuration Change Request |
CDM | Unidata Common Data Model |
CF | Climate and Forecast Metadata Conventions |
CRS | Coordinate Reference System |
COARDS | Cooperative Ocean/Atmospheric Research Data Service |
DAAC | Distributed Active Archive Center |
DIWG | Dataset Interoperability Working Group |
EOSDIS | Earth Observing System Data and Information System |
ESDS | Earth Science Data Systems |
ESDIS | Earth Science Data and Information System |
ESDSWG | Earth Science Data System Working Groups |
ESIP | Federation of Earth Science Information Partners |
ESO | ESDIS Standards Office |
group | HDF5 group or netCDF group |
GSFC | Goddard Space Flight Center |
HDF | Hierarchical Data Format |
HDF4 | Hierarchical Data Format, version 4 |
HDF5 | Hierarchical Data Format, version 5 |
HDF-EOS | Hierarchical Data Format - Earth Observing System |
HDF-EOS5 | Hierarchical Data Format - Earth Observing System, version 5 |
HPD | HDF Product Designer |
IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
ISO | International Organization for Standardization |
JPL | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
MCC | Metadata Compliance Checker |
NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
NaN | Not-a-Number |
ncks | netCDF Kitchen Sink |
NCO | netCDF Operator |
ncpdq | netCDF Permute Dimensions Quickly |
ncwa | netCDF Weighted Averager |
netCDF | Network Common Data Form |
netCDF3 | Network Common Data Form, version 3 |
netCDF4 | Network Common Data Form, version 4 |
NUG | NetCDF User Guide |
OGC | Open Geospatial Consortium |
OPeNDAP | Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol |
RFC | Request For Comments |
THREDDS | Thematic Real-time Environmental Distributed Data Services |
UTC | Universal Time Coordinated (also: Coordinated Universal Time) |
UTF-8 | Unicode Transformation Format—8-bit |
variable | HDF5 dataset or netCDF variable |
WGS-84 | World Geodetic System 84 |
WKT | Well-Known Text |
XML | Extensible Markup Language |