[CF-metadata] per-variable metadata?

From: Jonathan Gregory <j.m.gregory>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:26:50 +0100

Dear Jeff

> This reminds me of a question I wanted to ask: does CF have any
> conventions regarding how to handle data that contains multiple observed
> quantities with different quality flags, comment fields or other
> attributes for each quantity?

Yes. Ancillary variables such as flags are pointed to from data variables using
the ancillary_variables attribute (CF 3.4 and 3.5). There is discussion of
global and per-variable attributes in 2.6.2 and the attrs are tabulated
in Appendix A.

Cheers

Jonathan
Received on Thu Jul 15 2010 - 01:26:50 BST