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#79: Handling and formatting of vector quantities in CF -----------------------------+---------------------------------------------- Reporter: lavergne | Owner: [email protected] Type: enhancement | Status: reopened Priority: medium | Milestone: Component: cf-conventions | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: vector -----------------------------+---------------------------------------------- Comment (by lavergne): Replying to [comment:55 markh]: > This ticket has been untouched in 6 months, but it was not clear at this point that there was agreement on the way forward. Mark, I appreciate you re-open this issue. If you remember correctly, I had proposed an implementation of the vectors/tensors in CF on 21st August (2012). This proposal was however deemed as difficult to use in practice by others, and the explicit definition of components attributes (i_component, ij_direction, magnitude,...) was proposed. Even Jonathan, that was first advocating against the implied redundancy of the attributes was convinced, and -I must admit- so was I. So I do support your initiative to re-open the issue, following your idea. I am looking forward to comment/edit a text implementing this changeset into CF (main text and appendix). The term "umbrella" was really one I found for clarifying my ideas, but I am not attached to it. "container" is better, although it is funny how the netCDF implementation will "contain" very little (no data, no link to dimensions, just plain text attributes). And I cannot foresee what other usage of "umbrella/container" will be later propose that do not fit the "container" realm. Isn't a "umbrella/container" just a "gluer" or a "stitcher"? (now that's ugly :) I support "container" when compared to "umbrella", but am still looking for a more generic term. Cheers, Thomas -- Ticket URL: <https://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/trac/ticket/79#comment:59> CF Metadata <http://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/> CF Metadata This message came from the CF Trac system. To unsubscribe, without unsubscribing to the regular cf-metadata list, send a message to "[email protected]" with "unsubscribe cf-metadata" in the body of your message.
