It seems like there is support for this proposal. What should I do to make this happen?
many thanks
mark
-----Original Message-----
From: cf-metadata-bounces at cgd.ucar.edu on behalf of Jonathan Gregory
Sent: Fri 23/09/2011 18:14
To: cf-metadata at cgd.ucar.edu
Subject: [CF-metadata] standard names for defined global attribute names
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.
>
> 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
I agree with this proposal.
Cheers
Jonathan
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