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#74: Allow sharing of ancillary variables among multiple data variables ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Reporter: [email protected] | Owner: [email protected] Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: medium | Milestone: Component: cf-conventions | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: "ancillary data" "standard name modifiers" ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Comment (by jonathan): Dear John The modifiers are effectively a suffix, like appending `status_flag` to a standard name, without having to define a new standard name. I am suggesting, indeed (as Jim says), that `status_flag` should be defined as a standard name in its own right. Of course, it must really be the status flag of ''something'', but this would not be stated. The cost is therefore loss of descriptive information, as you say. The benefit is that it would resolve this rather awkward problem of primary data variables sharing metadata variables. Is the cost worth the benefit? Cheers Jonathan -- Ticket URL: <https://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/trac/ticket/74#comment:29> CF Metadata <http://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/> CF Metadata This message came from the CF Trac system. To unsubscribe, without unsubscribing to the regular cf-metadata list, send a message to "[email protected]" with "unsubscribe cf-metadata" in the body of your message.
