Questions and Comments about CF-1.6 Station Data Convention

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The objective of this page is to promote discussion about CF-netCDF formats for station point data.

Current Service implementation and CSV

Station point data delivery using comma-separated values, CSV, format is easy, compact and convenient. The format can be fed to any spreadsheet and consumed easily with custom software. Unfortunately, the format makes embedding metadata in a CF-like convention difficult.

Example of WCS GetCoverage query returning an envelope with uri to the result CSV file