This time you have understood, and I believe my proposal is a lot more useful.
Benno On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Jonathan Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Benno > > You mean C is either "real" or "imaginary"? I think the CF-like way to do > this would be to have two different data variables for it, one for the real > part, one for the imaginary. That's like having different standard names > for spatial components, as we do, rather than dimensions for components. > As for spatial components, where "eastward", "upward", etc. are in the > standard name, here you would put "real" or "imaginary" in the standard name. > The standard name would then be not air_pressure but something like > real|imaginary_part_of_fourier_transform_of_air_pressure_wrt_time > I'd suggest. > > I hope I have understood now, but maybe not! Best wishes > > Jonathan > -- Dr. M. Benno Blumenthal [email protected] International Research Institute for climate and society The Earth Institute at Columbia University Lamont Campus, Palisades NY 10964-8000 (845) 680-4450 _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
