[CF-metadata] New standard names for satellite obs data

From: Aleksandar Jelenak <Aleksandar.Jelenak>
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 09:21:25 -0400

Dear Olivier,

Aleksandar Jelenak wrote on 10/19/10 7:58 AM:
> Lauret Olivier wrote on 10/18/10 10:51 AM:
>> ? Are you sure you need a standard name such as "time_label_iso8601"?
>> I mean: isn't it possible to use "time" standard name instead? (And
>> put somewhere that it is ISO 8601 compliant information, like in
>> 'long name' attribute)
>
> It is possible and I can think of several alternative ways of doing that
> ('comments' variable attribute?). I am not sure though if it would be
> appropriate to use the standard name associated with numerical time data.

Actually, I don't think it is possible to use 'time' standard name in
such cases. If I correctly interpret CF rules for using standard names,
'time' data can be only in the physically-equivalent units to "seconds".
Strings, being dimensionless, do not qualify.

        -Aleksandar
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