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[CF-metadata] standard names for defined global attribute names

From: Jonathan Gregory <j.m.gregory>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 18:14:06 +0100

Dear Mark

> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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

I agree with this proposal.

Cheers

Jonathan
Received on Fri Sep 23 2011 - 11:14:06 BST

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