Re: [CF-metadata] Discussion of technical CF issues as GitHub issues?

2017-03-01 Thread Chris Barker
On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 9:15 AM, Painter, Jeff wrote: > Regarding the last point, the CF Conventions document *is* now being > managed on github - > > https://github.com/cf-convention/cf-conventions > Then it makes an enormous amont of sense to manage discussion there, too! -CHB -- Christop

Re: [CF-metadata] Pre-proposal for "charset"

2017-03-01 Thread Chris Barker
On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 12:30 PM, Jonathan Gregory < j.m.greg...@reading.ac.uk> wrote: > > I wasn't clear -- even if you know a CHAR array is supposed to be an > array > > For string-valued auxiliary coordinate variables (CF section 6.1) it's > explicitly stated that the trailing dimension in CDL

Re: [CF-metadata] New standard names for OMIP biogeochemistry and chemistry

2017-03-01 Thread Durack, Paul J.
Hi Alison, I just checked the query of the OMIP standard name request at http://cfeditor.ceda.ac.uk/proposals/1?status=all&commentfilter=OMIP and it seems we still have some items under discussion.. How can we kick these along to get them finalized so I can get the information updated so Martin

Re: [CF-metadata] new standard names request

2017-03-01 Thread Lowry, Roy K.
Forgot to set 'reply all'. Hi Allen, As I tried to explain in my last message the way things work in CF is that the Standard Name is associated with a CANONICAL unit. This is an expression of the dimensions of the measurement and NOT the actual unit of measure, which is stored in the Net