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Deal with missing standard names

For many indices there are no or no appropriate standard names in CF now (for an example, see #44 (closed)). We have to decide how to deal with this. Basically, we have four options, I think:

  1. Choose one of the available standard names
  2. Decide on the standard names ourselves and ignore the table
  3. Suggest a standard name for inclusion in the table and hold off on the index until approval
  4. Leave the standard name empty and put a preliminary standard name in an extra attribute.

@a001977, @a001257, what do you think?