@graybeal , @taylor13 : thank you for those comments. The idea of the 
"immediately prior source" certainly makes sense, but it may be undesirable if 
taken literally. For instance, global climate simulations which are distributed 
for global data exchange will, before being distributed, we rewritten using the 
CMOR package. CMOR provides a library of routines, which will are designed to 
be integrated into the workflows of the various modeling centres, so that the 
software producing the data files is generally some internal software package 
with a name that means nothing to people outside the institution. We take the 
"immediate prior source" suggested by Jim to refer to the generation of 
information content in the data by the global climate model, but this approach 
runs into ambiguity when the whole range of post-processing options is 
considered. Hence, I can also see some benefits from the more flexible approach 
suggested by Karl.

Could we encourage flexibility by allowing multiple source elements, e.g.
           `MOHC-HadGEM2-ES WRF MyCropModel` ?


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