Hi Jim,
Not the first time this has cropped up on the CF list. The problem is that when the Standard Names started out they were designed as OPTIONAL terms to identify model fields that referred to a given geophysical phenomenon. There has been a sort of mission creep since then with standard names being considered by some as unique standardised labels for every data channel in a CF file, accelerated by some communities choosing to make Standard Names compulsory for their CF files. This of course creates the need for more and more information to get hung off the Standard Name tag.
I continue to support the conclusion of these previous discussions, which is to keep methodologies out of Standard Names unless the methodology results in a significantly different phenomenon. There was quite a debate on this issue involving different types of sea surface temperature that you might care to look up in the archive.
Cheers, Roy.
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Subject: [CF-metadata] A question regarding standard names
Hi.
I've got a general question regarding standard names. I have had people
I work with asking whether it would be acceptable to have a standard
name that included methodology, such as microwave_brightness_temperature
as opposed to infrared_brightness_temperature. My feeling has been that
standard names are not supposed to have such differentiators, but I
haven't read anything that states that directly. Are standard names for
measurements limited to "essential" descriptions, or can they include
specification of the way the measurement was acquired?
Grace and peace,
Jim Biard
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