SeaDataNet has standardized short names - currently 429 names, and as
far as I know all the CF terms are included.
It's available at tinyurl.com/SDNp021 The long url for the p021 list is
seadatanet.maris2.nl/v_bodc_vocab/browse.asp?order=entrykey&formname=search&screen=0&l=P021&v0_0=&v1_0=entrykey%2Centryterm%2Centrytermabbr%2Centrytermdef%2Centrytermlastmod&v2_0=0&v0_1=&v1_1=entrykey&v2_1=3&v0_2=&v1_2=entryterm&v2_2=3&v0_3=&v1_3=entrytermabbr&v2_3=3&v0_4=&v1_4=entrytermlastmod&v2_4=9&v0_5=&v1_5=entrytermlastmod&v2_5=10&x=49&y=12&v1_6=&v2_6=&v1_7=&v2_7=
or you can just google SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary
You can export the list from that page into an xml file, or search for
individual terms.
- Nan
On 2/13/13 7:28 PM, Steve Hankin wrote:
Hi Nicolas,
Various organizations enforce their own standards for abbreviated
names in CF files -- OceanSites, Argo, WMO, .... CF, itself, does not.
The reason that CF does not attempt to standardize the names of
variables (which is how the abbreviations are used in the above
cases), is to leave open the possibility that a single file may
contain multiple variables representing the same quantity. For
example, SST as measured by satellite and as measured in situ could
potentially be in the same file. The long_name attribute can be used
to differentiate how multiple representations of the same variable
were derived.
- Steve
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On 2/13/2013 3:00 PM, Nicolas BALDECK - OpenMeteoData wrote:
Dear,
I'm designing a webservice for broadcasting some meteorological data.
I will use the CF naming convention for variables names, but I also
have to use small (< or = 6 letters) abbreviations.
Do you have advices about that ? Is there any abbreviation convention ?
Regards
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