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ESA CCI Toolbox (Cate)
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Allow mapping dataset variables to extra metadata #114

Open forman opened 7 years ago

forman commented 7 years ago

There is often a need for extra metadata associated with a dataset's (geophysical) variable which cannot be (easily) derived from the variable's data arrays or netCDF/CF attributes. Such metadata could be

Such variable to extra metadata mappings would ideally be stored in a JSON/YAML configuration file (e.g. in ~/.cate/mappings.yaml) so users can easily edit and adapt.

JanisGailis commented 7 years ago

This is at least partly solved in CF-compliant datasets: http://cfconventions.org/cf-conventions/v1.6.0/cf-conventions.html#ancillary-data

We already use this convention in outliers detection when creating a mask.