Re: [CF-metadata] Web reference to a standard name?

2010-12-20 Thread Jeff deLaBeaujardiere
Version numbers are good for identifiers that may change and bad for ones that shouldn't change. I agree there may be multiple terms from different vocabularies to represent each concept. However, what we want to avoid is multiple terms from a single vocabulary for the same concept. E.g., if

Re: [CF-metadata] CF name for predicted water level?

2010-12-20 Thread Jeff deLaBeaujardiere
On 2010-12-17 16:57, Christopher Barker wrote: > I think the OP's question really is: > > should one use a different standard name for a predicted, rather than a measured, quantity? > I think the answer is no, as I've seen all sorts of model output without anything in the standard name indicati

Re: [CF-metadata] bounds not allowed for scalar coordinate variables

2010-12-20 Thread Brian Eaton
Hi Karl, The discussion concerning the introduction of the scalar coordinate variable is available in the archive (July 2003 under the subject "size-one axes"). There was never a decision to disallow the "bounds" attribute. Although it could be more explicitly stated in the current document, I t

Re: [CF-metadata] CF name for predicted water level? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2010-12-20 Thread Andy Taylor
Hello All. I would be interested to hear if anyone can expand on the recent discussion of standard names for predicted water level. In particular with regard to the several variations of water level data that I am storing in netCDF format, but for which I am not yet able to comfortably assign s

Re: [CF-metadata] Web reference to a standard name?

2010-12-20 Thread Benno Blumenthal
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 1:40 AM, John Graybeal wrote: > > The proliferation/versioning topic was one we thought hard about in MMI, > and there are some writeups on the site that may be of interest to a few. > [1] It includes a bit more detail than we have pursued here. > > In case anyone cares: