[cf-pointobsconvention] Draft 2

[John Graybeal]

Sorry, my terminological mistake in this community (where I come from, 
what CF calls a 'standard name' is just another type of variable name, 
but with a specialized purpose). 

I think I get it (and I think my comment still applies).

John

At 10:59 AM -0600 9/18/07, John Caron wrote:
>John Graybeal wrote:
>> That seems useful for models but not so much for observations 
>> (which typically don't conform to, say, atmospheric surfaces).  More 
>> to the point, for me at least, the conflation of location with 
>> variable name -- I have to name this varable one thing if I measure 
>> it here, but then I move my instrument and my variable is now called 
>> something else -- is not a viable general-purpose mechanism for 
>> observing systems.
>
>Jonathan was talking about an optional "standard name", not variable names.
>

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