Dear Richard,
Many thanks for your question. Please could you clarify what you mean by "compound data types". I see that you are writing atmospheric composition data, but I'm not sure whether you are saying that we need some more standard names for chemical compounds, or something else entirely. If possible, please could you give an example of your metadata so that we can better understand your use case?
Best wishes,
Alison
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From: CF-metadata [mailto:cf-metadata-bounces at cgd.ucar.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Olav Rud
Sent: 04 July 2016 11:29
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Subject: [CF-metadata] Support for compound data types
Dear CF community,
We are currently working on exporting our NASA Ames formated data to cf-compliant netCDF for our atmospheric composition database.
Since our metadata changes over time, for most of our variables, we were thinking about using compound data types.
Most of our metadata is of little interest to our average user and therefore we would avoid listing them as variables. Even so, we are still obligated to present this information.
So I am wondering if there any plans in the near future to implement compound data types for the CF metadata conventions?
All the best,
Richard Rud
Atmosphere and Climate Department (ATMOS)
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