#156: Extension to external_variables Syntax for Masks and Area Fractions
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Reporter: martin.juckes | Owner: cf-conventions@…
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: medium | Milestone:
Component: cf-conventions | Version:
Resolution: | Keywords:
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Comment (by jonathan):
Dear Martin
Thanks for the proposal. It seems to me that this is probably going a bit
beyond the role of CF metadata, which is to describe what the data is i.e.
the mean within sea-ice areas - that's a sufficient description to
distinguish it from other quantities for most purposes. Your aim here is
to provide more information about how it was calculated, perhaps to enable
further calculations. That could be done, but I'm not convinced of the
case for providing special CF metadata for it unless it's an important
use-case. An alternative would be to record this information in some
unstandardised attribute, such as the history, which is where people do
sometimes record how variables were calculated. This could be standardised
by a CMIP6 convention, of course, in which there is a more systematic
relationship between quantities requested.
Best wishes
Jonathan
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