AeroCom

-> Aerosol Comparisons between Observations and Models

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Standards

The AeroCom initiative suggests to further advance Standards
used to format aerosol model output, to facilitate
the development of diagnostic tools.

Ongoing discussion on this is found on the following wiki page: follow link here

Discussion is based on an extension of the netCDF format: the CF convention.

A list with accepted standard names is found here

AEROCOM
is an international
science initiative
on aerosols and climate

supported by
EU Framework 5 and 6
through projects
PHOENICS
EUCAARI
GEOMON
CREATE

French CNES
Max-Planck Ges.
NASA