I remember doing a similar exercise several years back. The COARDS-unique contribution was a very thin thread indeed, in my opinion. COARDS is very old now, and relatively to CF, was pretty primitive at its completion. I would be surprised if it is in use at all. At this point, I think "COARDS-inspired" might be closer to the truth, and more useful framing.
John On Oct 23, 2018, at 9:36 AM, Nan Galbraith <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: 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<http://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, view it on GitHub<https://github.com/cf-convention/cf-conventions/issues/127#issuecomment-432321913>, or mute the thread<https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ABNU0Oh3vV6G1bWXOnB7LPrLEj4awc_pks5un0WogaJpZM4RjadX>. ======================== John Graybeal Technical Program Manager Center for Expanded Data Annotation and Retrieval /+/ NCBO BioPortal Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research 650-736-1632 -- 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-432372842
