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𝗖𝗙 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 support #OpenScience by automating processes via metadata in #NetCDF and #Zarr files. They establish a unified language for the #weather, #climate, #ocean, and #EO community. buff.ly/rGPuoku
#remotesensing #EarthObs

ZenodoSupporting Open Science with the CF Metadata Conventions for NetCDFSlides for the presentation given on 11 December 2024 at the AGU Annual Meeting to the session for the AGU Open Science Recognition Prize. Abstact:The CF (Climate and Forecast) Conventions are a community-developed standard that promotes the sharing and automated processing of Earth systems science data in the netCDF data format (and in Zarr/GeoZarr). The CF conventions define metadata that can be used to describe the coordinate systems, data structure, and geophysical meaning and units of each variable. This enables users of data from different sources to decide which quantities are comparable and facilitates building applications with powerful extraction, analysis, and display capabilities. There is a mature and growing ecosystem of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) and commercial software tools which work with CF. The CF standard has been essential to the success of high-profile internationally-coordinated modeling activities (e.g, the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project, which hosts more than 30 million files and more than 15 petabytes of data, all compliant with CF). CF is widely used by weather, climate, ocean and Earth observation scientists, and is gaining traction among others, such as the biogeochemistry and atmospheric chemistry communities.
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Centralizing Personnel Authority

A new #Trump move seeks to evade #court orders & empower DOGE
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/cen

"Why the new confidence in OPM? #OPM is, effectively, a subsidiary of DOGE now. DOGE employees, when they meet resistance, have not been shy about threatening federal employees or contractors... The new #EO means that #DOGE employees have even more leverage in their interactions with agencies."

#ElonMusk#Musk#Coup

More on #IMLS shutdown:

On March 14, 2025,… #Trump …issued an #EO that called for the dismantling of 7 #FederalAgencies…. They ranged from the #USAGM, which oversees #VOA, to the #MBDA.

The Institute of #Museum & #Library Services was also on the list. #Congress created the IMLS in 1996 through the Museum & Library Services Act. The #law merged the Inst of Museum Services, which was established in 1976, w/the Library Prgms Office of the Dept of #Education.

#USpol
theconversation.com/trump-admi

The ConversationTrump administration seeks to starve libraries and museums of funding by shuttering this little-known agencyThe consequences of shutting down the Institute of Museum and Library Services would be particularly dire for smaller museums and rural museums.

#ZALF:
"Wissenschaftlerinnen u. Wissenschaftler fordern .. besseren Zugang zu kommerz. hochaufl. Satellitenbildern, um die Forschung zu .. Entwicklungszielen der Vereinten Nationen u. die landwirtschaftliche Praxis voranzutreiben. Genauere .. Daten könnten nicht nur wissenschaftliche Analysen verbessern, sondern auch Landwirtinnen u. Landwirten helfen, Klimarisiken besser einzuschätzen .."

zalf.de/de/aktuelles/Seiten/Pr

4.3.2025

www.zalf.deBessere Satellitendaten für die Landwirtschaft: Forschende fordern freien ZugangBessere Satellitendaten für die Landwirtschaft: Forschende fordern freien Zugang

"
Airbus verschifft Biomass-Satellit nach Kourou

Der von Airbus gebaute Biomass-Satellit der
Europäischen Weltraumorganisation (ESA) hat Toulouse verlassen und ist auf dem Weg nach
Kourou, Französisch-Guayana.
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pdf: airbus.com/sites/g/files/jlcbt

airbus.com/en/newsroom/press-r

21.2.2025