Re: [CF-metadata] inclusion of GridSpec in CF?

2012-12-07 Thread Alexander Pletzer
evolution. Best, - Cecelia On 12/6/2012 9:10 AM, Alexander Pletzer wrote: Hi Cecelia, Great to hear that ESMF is implementing gridspec. We're in the same boat, we had to settle on some specifics before implementing gridspec into libCF. Like Bert, I'm a little worried about a proliferation

Re: [CF-metadata] inclusion of GridSpec in CF?

2012-11-26 Thread Alexander Pletzer
Hi Jonathan, Let me review this again. I will get back to you next week. --Alex On 11/26/2012 10:02 AM, Jonathan Gregory wrote: Dear Alex Would it be possible to agree some changes from what we previously agreed on your ticket, following the discussions we had earlier this year about the

Re: [CF-metadata] the need to store lat/lon coordinates in a CF metadata compliant netCDF file

2011-07-11 Thread Alexander Pletzer
John, On 07/11/2011 03:17 PM, John Caron wrote: On 7/11/2011 2:55 PM, Alexander Pletzer wrote: All, The host file and the mosaic file allow users to store coordinate data in external files. Section 10.6 in https://ice.txcorp.com/trac/modave/wiki/CFProposalGridspec describes this. The host

[CF-metadata] CF Conformance Requirements and Recommendations

2011-02-11 Thread Alexander Pletzer
*Hi,* While reading http://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/conformance/requirements-and-recommendations/1.5/ I found: 2.4 Dimensions *Requirements:* * The dimensions of a variable must all have different names. This appears too restrictive. In the case of the cubed-sphere, it is common to

[CF-metadata] staggered data

2011-01-24 Thread Alexander Pletzer
Hi, What is the best way to store staggered data, ie face/edge centered data, in CF? I know cell_methods can be used for cell centered data but I don't know of an attribute for representing vector fields arising in Arakawa C and D meshes. The vector field components are not co-located.

Re: [CF-metadata] staggered data

2011-01-24 Thread Alexander Pletzer
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Alexander Pletzer plet...@txcorp.com mailto:plet...@txcorp.com wrote: Hi, What is the best way to store staggered data, ie face/edge centered data, in CF? I know cell_methods can be used for cell centered data but I don't know of an attribute