http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/caron/public/CFch9-may10.pdf
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 7:15 AM, Jonathan Gregory <[email protected] > wrote: > Dear Chris > > > >I think its time to start using netcdf-4 for large collections of point > > >data which need to be compressed. Instead of first making a standard, we > > >need to try out the possibilities and see how it performs. > > > > That may be true, time to move on eventually! However, you can use > > netcdf4 for compression, but stille use a netcdf3 compatible data > > model, so I'd like to see netcdf4-only features used only if they > > really are necessary to get the data model we need. > > That could be done if you can represent the data using a new kind of > featureType to be added to the CF chapter on discrete sampling geometries, > which will be included in CF 1.6 (coming soon). The text for the discrete > sampling geometry chapter is at > http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/caron/public/CFch9-feb25_jg.pdf > > Best wishes > > Jonathan > _______________________________________________ > CF-metadata mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata > -- Dr. Richard P. Signell (508) 457-2229 USGS, 384 Woods Hole Rd. Woods Hole, MA 02543-1598
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