Hi all, Appendix B. "Standard Name Table Format" states that "[t]he purpose of the alias elements are to provide a means for maintaining the table in a backwards compatible fashion". However, it isn't really clear (at least to me) if entry terms in the standard name table should be preferred over alias terms.
... Just found this in the "About the CF Standard Name Table" page: "The use of an alias for the standard_name attribute when writing new data is not recommended." Perhaps some discussion of standard name aliases should be added to Section 3.3 "Standard Name"? Ethan -- Ethan Davis UCAR Unidata Program [email protected] http://www.unidata.ucar.edu _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
