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Goal: Provide interface routines to data.
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The module does not require interface routines to data.
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Goal: Use self-describing data files (such as NetCDF).
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n.a.
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Goal: Use public domain, portable, available and well-documented
data file formats.
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n.a.
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Goal: Establish standards for variable names, units, dimensions,
independent variables and grid descriptions as they appear in the
module interfaces.
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There is a convention, which is described in the pdf documentation file.
It allows to distinguish arrays and scalars, optons, logical variables,
and functions and subroutines.
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