@martinjuckes lots of new (I think) variables don't have anything in the type column, or sometimes have float. It seems that the older variables (e.g. in Amon) have a real type
I expect that the type of most variables will be float/real. I have checked that basin@0fx (Region Selection Index) had an integer type. Though it should probably be int if you follow the CF convention above: https://github.com/cmip6dr/Request/issues/66
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@martinjuckes lots of new (I think) variables don't have anything in the type column, or sometimes have float. It seems that the older variables (e.g. in Amon) have a real type
CF says that The netCDF data types char, byte, short, int, float or real, and double are all acceptable but it's probably better to use either float or real, and not both
I expect that the type of most variables will be float/real. I have checked that basin@0fx (Region Selection Index) had an integer type. Though it should probably be int if you follow the CF convention above: https://github.com/cmip6dr/Request/issues/66