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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 biard): Hi. I agree with Nan. It sure seems to me that the standard_name for a variable is intended to indicate a class of measurements to which a variable belongs, such as sea_water_temperature, in order to identify variables that have roughly comparable contents. Requiring decoding of the cell_methods attribute in order to tell if two variables are actually comparable appears to directly violate what I understand to be the intent of the standard_name attribute. With the approach suggested by Jonathan, the standard_name is reduced to making a much fuzzier statement - effectively, "This variable has something other to do with measurements of X". Maybe I'm wrong about the original/current interpretation of the standard_name attribute. If its purpose was always fuzzier than I thought it was, then let's move on. But if we are, in fact, talking about making a significant change in its interpretation, then I think we need to take a different approach. Grace and peace, Jim -- Ticket URL: <https://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/trac/ticket/74#comment:46> 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.
