Re: [CF-metadata] [cf-convention/cf-conventions] Reference UGRID conventions in CF (#153)

2021-07-21 Thread Patrick Peglar
> From the data model perspective, there needs to be SOME way to define the > connectivity. how it's done is a matter of the "encoding", yes? Yes, that is what I was "trying" to say ! > ?? -- but does X connect to Y is the key concept we are trying to capture > here. > in "lay" terms, I

Re: [CF-metadata] [cf-convention/cf-conventions] Reference UGRID conventions in CF (#153)

2021-07-19 Thread Patrick Peglar
> It sounds like we agree that the domain could have multiple topologies (as > opposed to topology constructs). It's a good point that we have no use case > for two or more topology constructs, each of which applies to a single unique > domain axis, and in fact we have no way of encoding it, so

Re: [CF-metadata] [cf-convention/cf-conventions] Reference UGRID conventions in CF (#153)

2021-07-01 Thread Patrick Peglar
Hi, sorry to be late to the table with this issue, but I have been listening in here a while, in hopes of understanding better and maybe contributing. I think that I may have spotted a potential problem with the removal of 'cf_role' : As stated (above), the role of a mesh-variable is

Re: [CF-metadata] [cf-convention/cf-conventions] Correction to the definition of "ocean sigma over z coordinate" in Appendix D (#314)

2021-05-21 Thread Patrick Peglar
Thanks for your clarifications @JonathanGregory and @zklaus. I think I've understood this more clearly now. And I'm happy to say, I'm agreeing with what you are both saying ! -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub:

Re: [CF-metadata] [cf-convention/cf-conventions] Correction to the definition of "ocean sigma over z coordinate" in Appendix D (#314)

2021-05-20 Thread Patrick Peglar
> I would have thought that the the creation of all new CF-1.8 datasets should > be deprecated. Just listening in here + heard something that affects us, (i.e

Re: [CF-metadata] [cf-convention/cf-conventions] Allow CRS WKT to represent the CRS without requiring comparison with grid mapping parameters (#222)

2020-02-24 Thread Patrick Peglar
> @taylor13 I haven't been following this, but what about tripolar grids, > which are often used in ocean models? > @zklaus How are they represented in CF right now? As far as I know only by 2d > coordinates (which doesn't codify the iso-coordinate lines). >From our specific experience : Most

Re: [CF-metadata] [cf-convention/cf-conventions] Allow CRS WKT to represent the CRS without requiring comparison with grid mapping parameters (#222)

2020-01-09 Thread Patrick Peglar
> Are there any applications that actively read in and use the CF grid mapping > parameters? Not sure if I'm answering the right question here, but [Iris](https://github.com/SciTools/iris) ***definitely does*** explicitly interpret CF grid-mapping terms : we have explicit code for translating