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Question: parameter long name

@a002160 I saw that there is a reasonable long name for the threshold parameter of nzero. Currently this have to be added manually in the yaml file. Could we devise a ways to have it already in the master table? This issue resurfaced now when I am working on the running_statistics [and thresholded_running_statistics] index function. Here we have a parameter window_size of kind: quantity and units: days. And I cannot find a relevant standard name (other than time) that has the right canonical units. So, either we ...

  • ... are stuck with adding this manually to the yaml file
  • ... accept that the auxiliary coordinate will have neither standard_name nor long_name, only var_name "window_size"
  • ... find a way to write this into in the master table

Any thoughts? For now, I would be reluctant to open a CF ticket to add a standard name involving anything resembling time/duration or similar...