[CF-metadata] string valued coordinates

From: Jim Biard <jbiard>
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 08:53:06 -0400

Mark,

The 'no units' case is covered by leaving off the units attribute.

Jim

On 10/3/14, 6:59 AM, Hedley, Mark wrote:
> Hello CF
>
> I understand that netCDF coordinate variables have to be strictly
> monotonic, and no-one wants to define what this means for the general
> case of strings; that is fine.
>
> But I believe that I can create a CF auxiliary coordinate with string
> values without any concern.
>
> I am interested in whether there are cases in the standard names table
> which explicitly state that a certain standard name should have string
> values?
>
> How might this be stated?
>
> Do we have a canonical unit of 'no_unit' available?
>
> thank you
> mark
>
>
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