Dear Bryan I may have overemphasised the point that you might be interested in only one of the amplitude and phase. My main point is you might want to express a FT as amplitude and phase, rather than real and imaginary. Since amplitude and phase don't have the same units, I think it would be against CF conventions to give them the same standard name and put them in the same data variable. The same treatment should apply to real and imaginary. But you might not agree with that argument on grounds of consistency.
Although it may look clunky, I think using standard names to distinguish the two parts of the FT is actually clearer - more self-describing - than using an index coordinate variable with arbitrary values (such as 0=real 1=imaginary - or would it be the other way round - and what if they are amplitude and phase?) to do it. That's another reason for my preference. Best wishes Jonathan _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
