[CF-metadata] cell measures for non-horizontal planes

2015-10-08 Thread Jonathan Gregory
from David Hassell <d.c.hass...@reading.ac.uk> - > Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 16:37:48 +0100 > From: David Hassell <d.c.hass...@reading.ac.uk> > To: cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu > Subject: [CF-metadata] cell measures for non-horizontal planes > User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09

[CF-metadata] cell measures for non-horizontal planes

2015-10-07 Thread David Hassell
Hello, I was wondering if anyone can help clear something up for me: Can an "area" cell measure variable span non-horizontal axes? For example, could you have an area cell measure for X-Z cells? And if so, what could its standard name be? E.g. float cell_area(longitude, height):