[CF-metadata] Clarification of what content is allowed to be in a single file

From: Daniel Neumann <daniel.neumann>
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2019 13:37:25 +0200

Dear List,

If data in a file is of a specific feature type (time series, trajectory, ...),
only one feature type is allowed per file (Chapter 9.1. Features and feature
types). Regularly gridded data (not ragged) has no feature type. Is it allowed
to have gridded data and data of one feature type in a single file? Or is
gridded data considered to have an implicit feature type?

It might be reasonable to keep these two types of data separated in different
files to prevent misinterpretation of the one or other variable. However, I
cannot find a passage in the CF Conventions that explicitly prohibits it.

Cheers,
Daniel

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