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#95: Development of CF 1.5 Data Model
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  Reporter:  markh           |       Owner:  [email protected]
      Type:  task            |      Status:  new                          
  Priority:  medium          |   Milestone:                               
 Component:  cf-conventions  |     Version:                               
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Comment (by mgschultz):

 Dear Jonathan,

     actually I was trying to argue against the use of "cell". A dictionary
 definition gives you:
 1. a small room, as in a convent or prison.
 2. any of various small compartments or bounded areas forming part of a
 whole.

 Thus, a "cell" would refer only to a bounded entity and disregard the case
 where you only care about the location itself. Using Heisenberg's
 principle ;-) one could rather argue that "location" is a term that is
 imprecise enough to allow for both interpretations. On the other hand, I
 like the clarification you provide in "the bounds are optional, but
 sometimes the bounds are the important information and the gridpoints are
 notional (for extensive quantities)." - If we can insert this bit into the
 definition, the meaning should become pretty clear.

 Martin

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