Dear Bryan (and Steve)
Thanks for your diagram and comments. Yes, it would be good to sit down with
you and see if we can reconcile our views expressed in words and pictures. :-)
We can talk about that in other emails so that CF doesn't have to join in the
discussion of our diaries.
I may be disa
Dear Ben
Thanks for your email and diagram. Unsurprisingly we share several concepts!
Your modelis a bit closer to the netCDF data format, as is appropriate for your
purpose in doing it. I see you don't have auxiliary coord vars on your
diagram, unless you regard them as a subset of coord vars. (B
Dear Miles
I understand that luminance is in cd m-2 and applies to diffuse reflection or
emission, as you say. A standard name not specifying wavelength would
be assumed to refer to all wavelengths, I think: things are general unless
they say they are specific. One thing is, luminance is direction
Hi Steve
> A high
> level description of the CF data model (pinning down concepts
> intuitively for readers as well as formal UML) would be a valuable
> addition to the document. (Maybe make this a trac ticket?)
Agreed: we need both ...
> Bryan -- I'd like to make sure that the vocabulary is cl
Thanks Miles,
Having read around a bit more I agree that the term luminance implies visible
(ie wavelengths detected by the human eye) light and so 'luminance_in_air'
would work, providing a suitable definition is included.
My straw man proposal for a definition would be 'A photometric measurem
