Dear Jim and Thomas It is fine to use flag_meanings to encode a string-valued field, as Jim suggests. It's been suggested before in other contexts. This is a kind of data compression and I don't think a special standard name is needed for it. It's still an area_type field.
Best wishes Jonathan _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
