[CF-metadata] standard names for stations

From: Jeffrey F. Painter <painter1>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:26:55 -0700

The draft version 1.6 of the CF Conventions manual recommends use of two
standard names which don't exist yet but are needed to describe discrete
data such as observations from stations or other discrete points. So
I'd like to propose the following two standard names:

- station_description : variable of character type containing a
description of a time series station
- wmo_platform_id : variable of integer type, containing the WMO
identifier of an observing station or other platform

- Jeff Painter
Received on Wed Aug 24 2011 - 17:26:55 BST