pism/pism — Issue #7: Create (or adopt) a consistent NetCDF variable naming scheme. Re-visit the standard_names issue.
Author: ckhroulev
Created: 2011-11-04 20:40:31+00:00
State: open
Labels: task

This will help with issues like this one: https://gna.org/bugs/?18313#comment5

I think it's time to abandon GLIMMER's (?) four-letter names. We use CF standard_names to identify many variables, and we don't have to stick to "usurf", "acab" and such.

This means that we might want to re-visit the issue of the lack of standard_names for some quantities we use.