Thanks, that's great. While I agree that we need to mention standard names, I don't think we can say 'precise definition of each variable via specification of a standard name' though, because CF allows variables without standard names.
Also, I'm afraid some of the details might be better omitted, like 'describes the vertical locations corresponding to dimensionless vertical coordinate values' - which may only confuse people. You covered that nicely with 'spatial and temporal properties of the data', I think. Last, in a brief description of CF, could we consider omitting references to COARDS? I realize it's good to keep that in the CF docs, but ... is there any part of COARDS that's not described in those docs? I'm almost sure the answer is no. I went to check, however the link to COARDS from unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/conventions.html is broken. Hmm, that tells us something, too. -- You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/cf-convention/cf-conventions/issues/127#issuecomment-432321913
