[CF-metadata] Ocean CTD data following CF Conventions v1.6

Hi CF list, We are working on coding up some 1000's netCDF files off CTD instruments and want to make usre we are following the latest netCDF conventions (v1.6) OK. As background the CTD records a profile pressure, temperature and salinity. Here is a summarised CDL version (not all attributes+va

Re: [CF-metadata] standard names for defined global attribute names

Dear Nan I agree that the use of a string-valued aux coord var for "source" or "institution" is not the only way to store this kind of information. However, I think there is some logic to this extension. (Although conventions are arbitrary, we prefer them to be logical!) I would make two argumen