Acknowledgements

The development of this learning resource was funded by the NFDI4Earth project, which is dedicated to consolidating research resources in the earth science domain and promoting open science.

The datasets used for examples and exercises were obtained from Unidata example files (available at https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/examples/files.html) and NOAA’s ERDDAP data server (available at https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap).

Thanks must go to the community and the authors of the CF Conventions for bringing this metadata standard towards maturization. Many thanks must also go to the developers of xarray and the softwares it depends on for making the creation of netCDF data such easy and interoperable.

Finally, a personal thanks goes to our team colleague Stefan for his insights and support in developing this course, and to our project partner Fari for creating the logo for this tutorial book.