Dear John > In marine domains anyway, there are maybe 6 common classification > schemes for habitat (many more uncommon ones). Note I do not mean > individual terms; I mean schemes. In agriculture I can't help but > think there are many more. > > Is this a slippery slope?
As always, I think we will have to wait and see what is requested. In land surface models there are not typically a huge number of different veg and land-use types. We have to deal with this somehow, anyway, as it is needed in metadata. Even if this is a slippery slope, nothing obliges us to slide down it. We keep our ice-axes at the ready for self-arrest and we can seek another route if this one is wrong. Cheers Jonathan _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
