Dear CF, what is the proper way to define the shape and boundaries of an oceanic section, for which I want to report the volume transport across that section?
The use case is an irregular-shaped section like OSNAP (http://www.o-snap.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/20160329_OSNAP_planeview.jpg), and the property to be reported is the seawater volume transport in a given depth range as a timeseries with this CF standard_name: ocean_volume_transport_across_line There needs to be some ancillary variable to say what the line coordinates are, and I am not sure how to squeeze that into "cell_bounds". In addition, how about the lower limit vertically if this is the seafloor? If the transports were to be everything below e.g. 1000 m, would it be appropriate to state vertical cell bounds as 1000 to 5000 m, even if the ocean is not 5000 m deep? I.e. is the user intelligent enough to realize that "5000" really means "5000 m or the seafloor, whichever is shallower"? Thanks, Matthias -- _______________________________________ Dr. Matthias Lankhorst Scripps Institution of Oceanography 9500 Gilman Drive, Mail Code 0230 La Jolla, CA 92093-0230 USA Phone: +1 858 822 5013 Fax: +1 858 534 9820 E-Mail: [email protected] http://www-pord.ucsd.edu/~mlankhorst/ _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
