[CF-metadata] Help needed with area_type and "surface type classification" datasets

From: Jonathan Gregory <j.m.gregory>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:28:45 +0100

Dear Jim and Thomas

It is fine to use flag_meanings to encode a string-valued field, as Jim
suggests. It's been suggested before in other contexts. This is a kind of
data compression and I don't think a special standard name is needed for it.
It's still an area_type field.

Best wishes

Jonathan
Received on Fri Sep 23 2011 - 06:28:45 BST