Open AaronDonahue opened 3 months ago
I don't see a reason to add more internal data to the class, since nobody would ever look at it, except I/O. I thought we already started this effort via the LongNames attribute of AtmosphereOutput. Isn't that what option 2 is about? Maybe we should simply expand that map...
We have been talking about making our output CF-Compliant for awhile. I'm adding this Issue so we can track that effort.
My understanding is that we simply need to add the
standard_name
metadata to a variable to make it CF-Compliant. The trick is that we would want to ensure that every variable has the correct "standard name" according to the CF guidlines, see https://cfconventions.org/Data/cf-standard-names/current/build/cf-standard-name-table.htmlIdeas we have considered:
field
class that can be set byadd_field