There are global attribute names defined with specific meaning in 2.6.2 Description of File Contents
http://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/documents/cf-conventions/1.5/ch02s06.html#description-of-file-contents
Specifically the names:
institution
source
It is a common operation to combine data from multiple sources/institutions into some form of ensemble. The natural operation is to promote source/institution to a coordinate variable.
I have seen many CF NetCDF files which are not CF compliant as they have used source and/or institution as a standard_name for a coordinate variable.
Thus I propose that
institution
source
are added to the standard name list, with the same definition for each as is used in 2.6.2
This will bring a common practice which I feel is logical into compliance.
Received on Wed Sep 21 2011 - 11:03:26 BST
