Hello CF The standard name realization is available for use: Realization is used to label a dimension that can be thought of asa statistical sample, e.g., labelling members of a model ensemble.
It is common practice in forecasting and some forecasting formats to explicitly state the number of members an ensemble contained. This would be generally be expected to be a single value across an ensemble collection. As such I am not sure that a standard name and a coordinate would be the most useful way to encode this piece of information. Thus, we could look to provide a new data variable attribute, something like number_of_realizations to store this metadata. However it is not impossible for this to vary across some coherent data set so perhaps a standard_name of number_of_realizations would be a sensible approach, even if in most cases this would be a scalar coordinate Please may I ask for some opinions on this matter? thank you mark
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