On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, Jon Blower wrote: > I have rediscovered this conversation in the depths of my inbox and > thought it might be worth resurrecting. To summarize the discussion > so far: > > 1) I proposed two new standard optional CF attributes (called > something like minimum_data_value and maximum_data_value) that would > be attached to a variable in a NetCDF file, redundantly holding its > actual min and max values in that file. [...] As well as helping with data > mining applications, this would act as a hint to visualization > packages to provide a first attempt at automatically defining a colour > scale range for sensible portrayal. Note that this attribute pair is > distinct in purpose from valid_min and valid_max (which contains > theoretical extrema, beyond which data is considered invalid).
I support the idea of formalizing these sorts of attributes in some way. However, I would prefer a simpler name(s). For example: "actual_min" and "actual_max." Less typing :-), and more like the existing "valid_min" and "valid_max" attributes. Julia -- Julia Collins National Snow and Ice Data Center CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder 449 UCB Boulder, CO 80309-0449 Voice: 303-492-6405 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
