When

Jul 24, 2025 10:00 AM to Jul 25, 2025 05:00 PM
(Europe/Berlin / UTC200)

Where

Grindelberg 5, Hamburg

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Data Centers have certain demands regarding the content and format of ESS data - we will focus in this workshop on creating CF (Climate and Forecast) compliant netCDF files.

We encourage the target group - ESS doctoral candidates, master students and scientists - to bring their own data, but we will also provide data sets that can be used during the workshop. Prerequisites are programming skills in Python.

The workshop participants will work on their data after a short introduction to the netCDF data format, the CF conventions and how to create CF compliant netCDF files in Python. In the end they will show their results in short presentations in order to discuss the problems that occured and their solutions, as well as getting an insight in each others scientific work.

After the workshop, the participants will be able to answer the following questions:

  • What is the netCDF data format?
  • What are the CF conventions?
  • What are essential metadata in the netCDF header?
  • How do I create CF compliant netCDF files?
  • How do I deal with special formats (single insitu measurements, ship observations, profiles, etc.) in the netCDF format?

Please send your registration per Email until July 10 to Remon Sadikni: remon.sadikni (at) uni-hamburg.de. In case of questions, please contact Remon Sadikni, too.

Detailed schedule:

Day 1

10:00 Welcome / Introduction round
10:20 Introduction to netCDF
Introduction to the CF Conventions
11:20 Break
11:30 How to Create netCDF files with Python
12:30 Lunch break
14:00 Introduction round: What kind of data do I want to create?
14:30 Working on your data
16:50 Short feedback round

17:00 End of Day 1

Day 2

10:00 Short introduction round: How far did I get, what is missing?
10:20 Working on your data
12:30 Lunch break
14:00 Preparation of a short presentation
14:30 Presentation of results
16:50 Short feedback round
17:00 End of workshop