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:While it is always a good idea to use existing standards whenever possible, CSDMS discovered that other naming conventions, such as the CF Convention Standard Names, were not well-suited to the needs of component-based modeling.  This section explains our use case and motivation for developing a new standard.
:While it is always a good idea to use existing standards whenever possible, CSDMS discovered that other naming conventions, such as the[http://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/documents/cf-standard-names/ '''CF Convention Standard Names''']  were not well-suited to the needs of component-based modeling.  This section explains our motivation for developing a new standard.


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CSDMS Standard Names

Information on the CSDMS Standard Names has been organized into the following sections that each have their own page.

While it is always a good idea to use existing standards whenever possible, CSDMS discovered that other naming conventions, such as theCF Convention Standard Names were not well-suited to the needs of component-based modeling. This section explains our motivation for developing a new standard.

The CSDMS Standard Names follow a basic object — quantity pattern.