Bob's message reminds me that once these terms are agreed upon
they may be used for many purposes, across many different types
of systems, while a lot of the discussion of this convention has been
focused on just describing the shape of a chunk of data to be returned
by software queries.
For
Hi Nan,
Let's consider how you're moored instrument data are mapped into NetCDF. If a
given parameter is stored as a 2-D array with time as one dimension and
instrument depth as the other then I would describe the data in that array as a
'profile series'. If they are stored as a set of 1-D
