Cf/Radial is the most recent format to be developed at NCAR/UCAR for handling radial data from modern radar and lidar platforms.
Cf/Radial is a collaborative effort between EOL, RAL and UNIDATA.
Cf/Radial is a CF-compliant netCDF format. Because of its CF-compliance, CfRadial will allow researchers familiar with CF to read the data into a wide variety of analysis tools, models etc.
The Proposed Cf/Radial Convention is published in PDF.
The CF community requires that proposals for new CF-compliant data formats undergo a review process.
See CF Trac to view the proposal, number 59.