catalog schema question: variable element

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Subject: catalog schema question: variable element
From: Darren Hardy <dhardy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 12:09:33 -0700

I have a question about the <variable> element in the inventorycatalog schema. Suppose that I have the following information on adataset variable (in DAS format):


Attributes {
    SST {
        String long_name "OI Cloud-free SST, blah blah blah";
        String standard_name "sea_surface_temperature";
        String units "degC";
    }
    Foobar {
        String long_name "My foobar variable"
        String units "m"
    }
}

As I read the catalog spec, I will lose the "human-readable"long_name attribute (ala CF-1.0):


  <variables>

<variable name="SST" vocabulary_name="sea_surface_temperature"units="degC"/>

    <variable name="Foobar" vocabulary_name"Foobar" units="m" />
  </variables>

Am I missing something? Is there a way to retain that human-readabledescription of the variables?


Thanks,
-Darren
--
Darren Hardy
Ph.D. Student
Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
University of California, Santa Barbara
dhardy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.bren.ucsb.edu/~dhardy

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