On 07/04/2016 12:29 PM, Richard Olav Rud wrote: > 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?
What level of metadata? per-variable or per-granule or even per-dataset? If the latter (2): take a look at the methods employed for Sentinel 5 precursor. http://www.tropomi.eu/documents/level-2-products http://www.tropomi.eu/science/level-2-products (the first link contains documentation, the second has (pre-launch) sample products). Best, Maarten Sneep -- KNMI T: 030 2206747 E: [email protected] R: A2.14 _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
