Dear Richard, Many thanks for your question. Please could you clarify what you mean by "compound data types". I see that you are writing atmospheric composition data, but I'm not sure whether you are saying that we need some more standard names for chemical compounds, or something else entirely. If possible, please could you give an example of your metadata so that we can better understand your use case?
Best wishes, Alison ------ Alison Pamment Tel: +44 1235 778065 Centre for Environmental Data Analysis Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory R25, 2.22 Harwell Campus, Didcot, OX11 0QX, U.K. From: CF-metadata [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard Olav Rud Sent: 04 July 2016 11:29 To: [email protected] Subject: [CF-metadata] Support for compound data types Dear CF community, We are currently working on exporting our NASA Ames formated data to cf-compliant netCDF for our atmospheric composition database. Since our metadata changes over time, for most of our variables, we were thinking about using compound data types. Most of our metadata is of little interest to our average user and therefore we would avoid listing them as variables. Even so, we are still obligated to present this information. So I am wondering if there any plans in the near future to implement compound data types for the CF metadata conventions? All the best, Richard Rud Atmosphere and Climate Department (ATMOS) ________________________________ NILU - Norsk institutt for luftforskning Norwegian Institute for Air Research PO Box 100, 2027 KJELLER Besøk/visit: Instituttveien 18, 2007 Kjeller E-mail: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> www.nilu.no<http://www.nilu.no> P Please consider the environment before printing this email and attachments
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