NASA Ames Format for Data Exchange

A data exchange format used mostly in atmospheric observations (came out of aircraft observations at NASA Ames Research Center in 1988).

This standard was developed at NASA Ames Research Center during the Stratosphere Troposphere Exchange Project (STEP), when uniform rules to record data were needed to facilitate the data exchange between the participants and allow shared use of a minimised amount of software to analyse and display different datasets. It emphasizes portability, readibility by humans, and self-description of the data.

The format has been adopted and maintained by British Atmospheric Data Centre for use in NERC. It does not appear to be used in the oceanographic community.

Reference URLs: 
BADC Site on NASA Ames Format
Maturity Estimate: 
Operational
Posted November 29th, 2007 by graybeal
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