The NetCDF format says nothing about variable and dimension naming
conventions and little about attribute names. It does provide a few
standards, such as the attribute ``long_name
'' for describing a
variable, which have been adopted by the MINC standard. MINC defines a
set of standard names for commonly used entities and the include file
defines constants specifying these names. These are described at
length in the MINC reference manual. The most interesting of these is
MIimage
, the name of the variable used for storing the actual image
data in the file.