ll be (or will be treated as) 64-bit floating-point values.</dd>
</dl><h3>The metadata keys</h3>
<p>The following keys and their associated values are used to describe the metadata in these dictionaries.</p>
<dl><dt>"name"</dt>
<dd>a string giving the (code) name for the variable in Ferret; for example, "SST"</dd>
<dt>"title"</dt>
<dd>a string giving the title name for the variable in Ferret; for example, "Sea Surface Temperature"</dd>
<dt>"dset"</dt>
<dd>the Ferret dataset name or number of this data varia