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Add additional metadata to variables for UGRID/CF compliance

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Description

assign_ugrid_topology() currently does (I think) everything that the subsetting code needs.

But there are other things that it would be nice to have, In particular, there's no addition of metadata to the data variables:

https://ugrid-conventions.github.io/ugrid-conventions/#data-defined-on-unstructured-meshes

which should have mesh and location attributes:

double Mesh2_waterlevel(time,nMesh2_face) ;
    Mesh2_waterlevel:standard_name = "sea_surface_height_above_geoid" ;
    Mesh2_waterlevel:units = "m" ;
    Mesh2_waterlevel:mesh = "Mesh2"
    Mesh2_waterlevel:location = "face" ;
    Mesh2_waterlevel:coordinates = "Mesh2_face_x Mesh2_face_y" ;

A "make fully ugrid compliant" method would be great.

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Research direction

Read assign_ugrid_topology() and the linked UGRID section on data defined on unstructured meshes. Identify how data variables are represented and where topology metadata is currently assigned; done means the relevant variables receive the required mesh and location metadata through a fully UGRID-compliant method.

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python
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data
Issue type
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