SeaDataNet has standardized short names - currently 429 names, and as
far as I know all the CF terms are included.
It's available at tinyurl.com/SDNp021 The long url for the p021 list is
seadatanet.maris2.nl/v_bodc_vocab/browse.asp?order=entrykey&formname=search&screen=0&l=P021&v0_0=&v1_0=entrykey%2Centryterm%2Centrytermabbr%2Centrytermdef%2Centrytermlastmod&v2_0=0&v0_1=&v1_1=entrykey&v2_1=3&v0_2=&v1_2=entryterm&v2_2=3&v0_3=&v1_3=entrytermabbr&v2_3=3&v0_4=&v1_4=entrytermlastmod&v2_4=9&v0_5=&v1_5=entrytermlastmod&v2_5=10&x=49&y=12&v1_6=&v2_6=&v1_7=&v2_7=
or you can just google SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary
You can export the list from that page into an xml file, or search for
individual terms.
- Nan
On 2/13/13 7:28 PM, Steve Hankin wrote:
> Hi Nicolas,
>
> Various organizations enforce their own standards for abbreviated
> names in CF files -- OceanSites, Argo, WMO, .... CF, itself, does not.
>
> The reason that CF does not attempt to standardize the names of
> variables (which is how the abbreviations are used in the above
> cases), is to leave open the possibility that a single file may
> contain multiple variables representing the same quantity. For
> example, SST as measured by satellite and as measured in situ could
> potentially be in the same file. The long_name attribute can be used
> to differentiate how multiple representations of the same variable
> were derived.
>
> - Steve
>
> ===========================================
>
> On 2/13/2013 3:00 PM, Nicolas BALDECK - OpenMeteoData wrote:
>> Dear,
>>
>> I'm designing a webservice for broadcasting some meteorological data.
>>
>> I will use the CF naming convention for variables names, but I also
>> have to use small (< or = 6 letters) abbreviations.
>>
>> Do you have advices about that ? Is there any abbreviation convention ?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
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