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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 Randy Thank you for the helpful summary. I think this is a reasonable approach i.e. add `status_flag` and `number_of_observations` as standard names of dimensionless quantities. Regarding these, I would note: * Although the standard name of the ancillary variable will no longer identify the quantity it belongs to, the `ancillary_variables` attribute serves to link them. * So far, we have not abolished any existing facility of CF. We do not need to withdraw `status_flag` or `number_of_observations` as standard names. We could deprecate them i.e. recommend against using them. In that case the CF checker would give a warning (rather than an error) if they were used in a file conforming to the version of CF in which this change was made. I suggest that this option should be considered. A separate ticket can deal with any proposal for `standard_error` and `detection_minimum`, as you suggest. Cheers Jonathan -- Ticket URL: <https://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/trac/ticket/74#comment:49> 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.
