their own
conventions to impose further constraints on how CF is used in their dataset.
Best wishes
Jonathan
- Forwarded message from Ben Hetland -
> From: Ben Hetland
> To: "cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu"
> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 19:15:27 +
> Subject: Re: [CF-meta
Dear Richard and others,
> If we tried to be prescriptive, it might either (a) prevent
> people from using CF, or (b) using it incorrectly, because it
> didn't quite fit their needs, but they didn't want to change
> how they did things.
or (c) using it incorrectly because they didn't quite unders
Dear Ben
> > It imposes a small cost by increasing the number of standard_names that
> > have to be defined, but it's very easy to agree such pairs of
> > standard_names,
>
> If I could have a say on this, I would prefer that the standard chooses just
> one. Having the possibility of a dual set
Jonathan Gregory wrote on the issue of "downward"
and "upward" as separate standard names vs indicated by an attribute:
> If it was a separate attribute, it could be omitted, and probably sometimes
> would be (even if that was an error).
I second that, and I have seen it happen with other attrib
Dear Jim
> Seems a shame that this wasn't originally handled with a standard
> name of 'vertical_air_velocity' (or some such) that required a
> 'positive' attribute. Both upward and downward could be covered with
> no confusion.
If it was a separate attribute, it
could be omitted, and probably so
Seems a shame that this wasn't originally handled with a standard name
of 'vertical_air_velocity' (or some such) that required a 'positive'
attribute. Both upward and downward could be covered with no confusion.
On 9/11/14, 11:52 AM, Jonathan Gregory wrote:
Dear Ken
I would like to propose a
Dear Ken
> I would like to propose a new standard_name to complement
> upward_air_velocity. upward_air_velocity uses positive values to indicate
> upward direction, but we have many instrument that use a convention of
> positive values to indicate downward direction. Can we clone
> upward_air_
Dear CF-metadata,
I would like to propose a new standard_name to complement upward_air_velocity.
upward_air_velocity uses positive values to indicate upward direction, but we
have many instrument that use a convention of positive values to indicate
downward direction. Can we clone upward_air_ve
