Do the netCDF files conform to any recognised standards?
Yes, the WOCE netCDF files conform to the international standards set by COARDS (Co-operative Ocean/Atmosphere Research Data Service), a USA-based co-operative for the sharing and distribution of global atmospheric and oceanographic research data sets. This means that the variables names associated with the data, the attributes of the data and the time convention follow a common standard for all the different data types within the WOCE Global Data resource and also are common to other data sets that are used by the oceanographic and meteorology communities. More details about the COARDS and WOCE conventions can be found on the Help pages on the Disk.
