Hi All,
I am logging in late into this discussion. I am trying to summarize
where the discussion stands as of now. Please correct me if I am wrong
with these statements:
1) Everybody agrees that CF should allow a way of storing geophysical
variable data even when the geophysical coordinate where the variable is
measured is missing.
2) There is no agreement on best way of doing it (representing the
geophysical variable data when the geophysical coordinates are missing).
The current discussion is on whether to allow missing values within
auxiliary coordinate variables, which CF already does for discrete
sampling geometries.
Is there an alternative representation for storing missing data if we
don't allow missing values within auxiliary coordinate variables?
Upendra
On 3/29/2012 11:32 AM, Jonathan Gregory wrote:
Dear Jim
We are discussing auxiliary coordinate variables. They do not have to be
1D or monotonic. Those requirements apply to coordinate variables in the
Unidata sense. CF distinguishes these two concepts in Sect 1.2.
The point is, the information in the variable *is* coordinate information,
I would say, if it's missing, it's not information.
What if we say something along the lines of, "Applications should treat the
data as missing where the auxiliary coordinates are missing when plotting
data."? Would that resolve the problem?
Plotting is not the only thing that an application might wish to use it for.
If we said, more generally, "Applications should treat the data as missing for
all purposes where the aux coord variables are missing", it would be almost
the same as not allowing missing data in aux coord vars, since there would be
no point in providing a data value if it was not permitted to use it.
Although I am arguing one side, I could be convinced either way. But it does
feel unsafe to me at present.
Cheers
Jonathan
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