ACMO (AgMIP Crop Model Output) Data definitions
Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP) |
Plant Science and Plant Products
Socio-economic data, Value chain data, Farm management data, Crop growth models
The variables defined as the standard ACMO variables. Data translation tools will be developed for each participating AgMIP crop model which take... more |
Data dictionary
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AgMIP ICASA Master Variable List
International Consortium for Agricultural Systems Applications (ICASA), Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP) |
Agricultural Research, Technology and Engineering, Farms and Farming Systems
Natural Resources, Earth and Environment data, Weather / meteorological data, Weather observations (live or historical), Weather observations, Crop management data from the farm, Observed field data from the farm, Farm management data, Value chain data, Socio-economic data
The International Consortium for Agricultural Systems Applications (ICASA) has established a naming convention for agricultural model variables... more |
Data dictionary
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AgMIP Json Data Object format
Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP) |
Agricultural Research, Technology and Engineering, Plant Science and Plant Products
Natural Resources, Earth and Environment data, Soil data, Weather / meteorological data, Weather observations (live or historical), Weather observations, Research and agronomic data, Plants / germplasm, Plant Anatomy and Development, Socio-economic data, Value chain data, Farm management data, Observed field data from the farm
Format used by AgMIP models: data are transferred into and out of the ACE and ACMO databases through the API using JSON objects, which consist of key... more |
Binary / text data format
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AMS Glossary of Meteorology
American Meteorological Society (AMS) |
[Peripheral / neighbouring domains], Meteorology and Climatology
Natural Resources, Earth and Environment data, Weather / meteorological data
In 1959, the AMS published the Glossary of Meteorology. Containing 7900 terms, more than 10,000 copies have been sold over four decades through five... more |
Glossary, Terminology
HTML, PDF |
CEDA BADC-CSV format
Center for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) |
Meteorology and Climatology, [Peripheral / neighbouring domains]
Weather / meteorological data, Natural Resources, Earth and Environment data
CEDA has used NASA-Ames formatted data for many years. NASA-Ames was devised primarily as a format for aircraft observations, but can be adapted for... more |
Binary / text data format
HTML, PDF |
Climate Science Modelling Language (CSML)
British Atmospheric Data Centre |
[Peripheral / neighbouring domains], Meteorology and Climatology
Natural Resources, Earth and Environment data, Weather / meteorological data
Climate Science Modelling Language v3.0 is a data model for encoding climate, atmospheric and oceanographic data in terms of geometry-based... more |
Model, Schema / element set
UML model, XML |
CLIPC Glossary
CLIPC Consortium |
[Peripheral / neighbouring domains], Meteorology and Climatology
Natural Resources, Earth and Environment data, Weather / meteorological data
CLIPC (Constructing Europe's Climate Information Portal) is an EC FP7 project giving access to data from satellite and in-situ observations, climate... more |
Glossary, Terminology
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Common Alerting Protocol (CAP)
Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), OASIS Emergency Management TC |
Meteorology and Climatology, [Peripheral / neighbouring domains]
Weather alerts, storm warnings, Weather forecasts, Weather / meteorological data, Natural Resources, Earth and Environment data
The Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) is a simple but general format for exchanging all-hazard emergency alerts and public warnings over all kinds of... more |
Messaging standard, Schema / element set
Binary, XML |
GRIB - General Regularly-distributed Information in Binary form
World Meteorological Organization |
[Peripheral / neighbouring domains], Meteorology and Climatology
Resource-specific metadata, Datasets, Natural Resources, Earth and Environment data, Weather / meteorological data
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Commission for Basic Systems (CBS) Extraordinary Meeting Number VIII (1985) approved a general purpose,... more |
Binary / text data format, Messaging standard
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HDF5 File Format Specification
HDF Group |
Geospatial and geopolitical domain, Meteorology and Climatology, [Peripheral / neighbouring domains]
Resource-specific metadata, Datasets, Natural Resources, Earth and Environment data, Geospatial data / objects, Hydrological data, Weather / meteorological data
The format of an HDF5 file on disk encompasses several key ideas of the HDF4 and AIO file formats as well as addressing some shortcomings therein... more |
Binary / text data format
HTML, PDF |
ICASA Data Standards for Agricultural Field Experiments and Production
International Consortium for Agricultural Systems Applications (ICASA) |
Agricultural Research, Technology and Engineering, Farms and Farming Systems
Weather observations, Weather observations (live or historical), Weather / meteorological data, Natural Resources, Earth and Environment data
Data format for documenting experiments and modeling crop growth and development. The foundation of the standards is a master list variables that is... more |
Data dictionary, Schema / element set
XML |
INSPIRE Data Specifications for Coordinate reference systems
European Commission Joint Research Centre, INSPIRE Thematic Working Group Coordinate Reference Systems & Geographical Grid Systems |
Geospatial and geopolitical domain, [Peripheral / neighbouring domains]
Geospatial data / objects, Natural Resources, Earth and Environment data
The theme establishes a structure for spatial referencing of features by coordinates. It refers to ISO 19111 adding a higher accuracy level. more |
Data specification, Model
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ISO 19156:2011 Geographic information - Observations and measurements
International Standards Organisation |
Natural Resources, Earth and Environment
Hydrological data, Soil data, Weather / meteorological data, Weather observations (live or historical), Soil profiles, Observed field data from the farm, Natural Resources, Earth and Environment data, Soil research data, Research and agronomic data, Farm management data, Value chain data, Socio-economic data, Observations and measurement (all domains), [General / cross-cutting]
ISO 19156:2011 defines a conceptual schema for observations, and for features involved in sampling when making observations. These provide models for... more |
Data specification
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ISO 8601 Data elements and interchange formats – Information interchange – Representation of dates and times
International Organization for Standardization (ISO) |
ISO 8601 describes an internationally accepted way to represent dates and times using numbers. more |
Data specification
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ISO/TS 19139:2007 Geographic information -- Metadata -- XML schema implementation
ISO/TC 211 Organization, International Standards Organisation |
Geospatial and geopolitical domain
Natural Resources, Earth and Environment data, Geospatial data / objects
XML schema (GMD) for the ISO 19115:2003 Geographic Information - Metadata..The objective of this International Standard is to provide a structure for... more |
Schema / element set
XML |
Linked Open Data (LOD)-enabled bibliographical data
Food and Agriculture Organization |
Resource-specific metadata, Documents
LODE-BD aims to support the selection of appropriate encoding strategies for producing meaningful Linked Open Data (LOD)-enabled bibliographical data... more |
Application profile
HTML, PDF |
Meaningful Bibliographic Metadata
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
Resource-specific metadata
Meaningful Bibliographic Metadata (M2B) is a set of recommendations for content providers to select appropriate metadata properties for the creation... more |
Application profile, Model
HTML |
NASA Ames Format
NASA |
[Peripheral / neighbouring domains], Meteorology and Climatology
Resource-specific metadata, Datasets, Natural Resources, Earth and Environment data, Weather / meteorological data, [General / cross-cutting], Observations and measurement (all domains)
The NASA Ames Format for Data Exchange, often referred to as NASA Ames Format, grew out of NASA aircraft campaigns and was first formalised at the... more |
Binary / text data format
HTML, PDF |
NetCDF - Network Common Data Form
Unidata, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) |
Geospatial and geopolitical domain, Meteorology and Climatology, [Peripheral / neighbouring domains]
Datasets, Geospatial data / objects, Hydrological data, Weather / meteorological data, Resource-specific metadata, Natural Resources, Earth and Environment data
The Network Common Data Form, or netCDF, is an interface to a library of data access functions for storing and retrieving data in the form of arrays... more |
Binary / text data format
HTML, PDF |
NetCDF Climate and Forecast (CF) metadata conventions
Climate and Forecast metadata conventions |
Natural Resources, Earth and Environment, [Peripheral / neighbouring domains], Meteorology and Climatology
Natural Resources, Earth and Environment data, Weather / meteorological data
The conventions for CF (Climate and Forecast) metadata are designed to promote the processing and sharing of files created with the NetCDF API . The... more |
Binary / text data format, Model
HTML, PDF |
The NetCDF Markup Language (NcML)
Unidata, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) |
[Peripheral / neighbouring domains], Meteorology and Climatology
Natural Resources, Earth and Environment data, Weather / meteorological data, Observations and measurement (all domains), [General / cross-cutting]
NcML is an XML representation of netCDF metadata, (approximately) the header information one gets from a netCDF file with the "ncdump -h" command... more |
Schema / element set
XML |
OGC CF-netCDF 3.0 encoding using GML Coverage Application Schema
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) |
[Peripheral / neighbouring domains], Meteorology and Climatology
Natural Resources, Earth and Environment data, Weather / meteorological data
The Geography Markup Language (GML) is an XML grammar for expressing geographical features. GML serves as a modeling language for geographic systems... more |
Application profile, Schema / element set
PDF, UML model |
OGC CF-netCDF3 Data Model Extension standard
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) |
[Peripheral / neighbouring domains], Meteorology and Climatology
Weather / meteorological data, Natural Resources, Earth and Environment data
The OGC netCDF encoding supports electronic encoding of geospatial data, that is, digital geospatial information representing space and time-varying... more |
Binary / text data format
PDF |
OGC GML Application Schema - Coverages - GeoTIFF Coverage Encoding Profile
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) |
[Peripheral / neighbouring domains], Geospatial and geopolitical domain
Natural Resources, Earth and Environment data, Geospatial data / objects
This Interface Standard is a profile of the OGC® GML Application Schema –Coverages version 1.0 [OC 09-146r2]. This document specifies the usage of... more |
Binary / text data format
Binary |
OGC Observations and Measurements - XML Implementation
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) |
Natural Resources, Earth and Environment, Meteorology and Climatology, [Peripheral / neighbouring domains]
Hydrological data, Soil data, Weather observations (live or historical), Weather observations, Soil profiles, Observed field data from the farm, Natural Resources, Earth and Environment data, Weather / meteorological data, Soil research data, Research and agronomic data, Farm management data, Value chain data, Socio-economic data, Observations and measurement (all domains), [General / cross-cutting]
This standard specifies an XML implementation for the OGC and ISO Observations and Measurements (O&M) conceptual model (OGC Observations and... more |
Schema / element set
PDF, XML |
OGC Sensor Model Language (SensorML)
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) |
Natural Resources, Earth and Environment, [Peripheral / neighbouring domains], Meteorology and Climatology
Natural Resources, Earth and Environment data, Weather / meteorological data, Weather monitoring infrastructure, Description and configuration of sensor networks, Observation and reporting facilities
The primary focus of the Sensor Model Language (SensorML) is to provide a robust and semantically-tied means of defining processes and processing... more |
Schema / element set
HTML, XML |
OGC Timeseries Profile of Observations and Measurements
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) |
Natural Resources, Earth and Environment, [Peripheral / neighbouring domains], Meteorology and Climatology
Natural Resources, Earth and Environment data, Hydrological data, Soil data, Weather / meteorological data, Weather observations (live or historical), Weather observations, Research and agronomic data, Soil research data, Soil profiles, Socio-economic data, Value chain data, Farm management data, Observed field data from the farm, [General / cross-cutting], Observations and measurement (all domains)
TimeseriesML 1.0 defines an XML encoding that implements the OGC Timeseries Profile of Observations and Measurements [OGC 15-043r3] , with the intent... more |
Model, Schema / element set
HTML, UML model, XML |
OpenGIS OGC Geography Markup Language
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) |
Geospatial and geopolitical domain
Natural Resources, Earth and Environment data, Geospatial data / objects
The Geography Markup Language (GML) is an XML grammar for expressing geographical features. GML serves as a modeling language for geographic systems... more |
Schema / element set
XML |
OSCAR Observing Systems Capability Analysis and Review Tool: list of variables
World Meteorological Organization |
Natural Resources, Earth and Environment, [Peripheral / neighbouring domains], Meteorology and Climatology
Natural Resources, Earth and Environment data, Soil data, Weather / meteorological data, Weather observations (live or historical), Research and agronomic data, Plants / germplasm, Location and Environmental, Soil research data, Soil profiles, Socio-economic data, Value chain data, Farm management data, Observed field data from the farm, [General / cross-cutting], Observations and measurement (all domains)
OSCAR is a resource developed by WMO in support of Earth Observation applications, studies and global coordination. It contains quantitative user-... more |
Data dictionary
HTML |
Weather Objects Modelling Language (WOML)
Finnish Meteological Institute |
[Peripheral / neighbouring domains], Meteorology and Climatology
Weather forecasts, Weather observations (live or historical), Weather / meteorological data, Natural Resources, Earth and Environment data
Development for a GML Application Schema for Meteorological Objects, like weather fronts, rain areas and such, was started at Finnish Meteological... more |
Model, Schema / element set
UML model, XML |
WMO Core Profile of the ISO 19115: Geographic Information - Metadata standard
World Meteorological Organization |
[Peripheral / neighbouring domains], Geospatial and geopolitical domain, Meteorology and Climatology
Resource-specific metadata, Datasets
The WMO Core Profile of the ISO 19115: Geographic Information - Metadata standard is used by the WMO Information System (WIS) to create a catalogue... more |
Binary / text data format, Data specification
PDF, XML |
WMO METEOTERM
World Meteorological Organization |
Meteorology and Climatology, [Peripheral / neighbouring domains]
Weather / meteorological data, Natural Resources, Earth and Environment data
METEOTERM is the WMO terminology database. It contains specialized terminology in six languages: English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and... more |
Glossary, Terminology
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