Fwd: Re: [CF-metadata] stations and trajectories

From: Jonathan Gregory <j.m.gregory>
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 12:03:08 +0100

Dear John

> >I don't think we can arrange unique station names unless we define or point
> >to a list of them somehow. Should we do this?
> >
> My solution would just be to tell the writer that the names must be
> unique, not to specify what they are.

That is certainly something for the data-writer to decide. It seems like it
would be the subject for some local convention in a particular project, if
the station names were going to be used as unique identifiers. In general
auxiliary coordinate variables can have repeated values, unlike (unidata
standard) coordinate variables.

Cheers

Jonathan
Received on Fri Jun 24 2005 - 05:03:08 BST