The netcdf files are disorganized and split up, which fails to take advantage of the format. We need to document the data and combine data sets into a single file that is easy (quick and logical) to read.

The data are here: https://github.com/ebimodeling/ghgvc/tree/master/netcdf

Presumably the metadata are in app/controllers/workflows_controller.rb.

TODO:

1. concatenating and appending data.
   perhaps separate by source, but it makes more sense to combine all variables into a single folder, and the separation of crops into US and Brazil is redundant with the map and lat/lon coordinates.
2. stored data separately from source code (and perhaps remove from history to reduce checkout size)
3. re-grid similar datasets, combine into single file
4. add species / pft as a dimension, see CF discussion http://kitt.llnl.gov/trac/ticket/99 e.g
   • 'taxon_identifier' as standard_name; --> scientific name