On 07/04/2016 12:29 PM, Richard Olav Rud wrote:
> 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?
What level of metadata? per-variable or per-granule or even per-dataset? If the
latter (2): take a look at the methods employed for Sentinel 5 precursor.
http://www.tropomi.eu/documents/level-2-products
http://www.tropomi.eu/science/level-2-products
(the first link contains documentation, the second has (pre-launch) sample products).
Best,
Maarten Sneep
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Received on Mon Jul 04 2016 - 10:45:57 BST
