Re: [CF-metadata] fixed sensors, depth, datum

2008-09-26 Thread Ethan Davis
Hi Jonathan, I would argue against them being different quantities because there exist transformations between these various heights. Is that not enough to indicate they are the same quantity? Ethan Jonathan Gregory wrote: Dear Jon - height relative to the ellipsoid - height relative

Re: [CF-metadata] Cell bounds associated with coordinate variable rather than data variable

2009-10-29 Thread Ethan Davis
collection point of view, maybe, but stops there. Most of us use center of interval as default, particularly since our semantics are not good enough to detect accumulation (which is the only case where end of interval is natural). Benno On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Ethan Davis eda

[CF-metadata] Question on WKT representation of CRS

2011-10-01 Thread Ethan Davis
Conformal (2SP) not 9802). Ethan -- Ethan Davis UCAR Unidata Program eda...@unidata.ucar.eduhttp://www.unidata.ucar.edu ___ CF-metadata mailing list CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu http

Re: [CF-metadata] CF upgrade to netCDF variable names

2014-01-15 Thread Ethan Davis
-metadata mailing list CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata -- Ethan Davis UCAR Unidata Program eda...@unidata.ucar.eduhttp://www.unidata.ucar.edu

Re: [CF-metadata] Vertical datums (again)

2014-02-12 Thread Ethan Davis
://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata ___ CF-metadata mailing list CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata -- Ethan Davis UCAR Unidata Program eda

Re: [CF-metadata] Vertical datums (again)

2014-02-12 Thread Ethan Davis
://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata -- Ethan Davis UCAR Unidata Program eda...@unidata.ucar.eduhttp://www.unidata.ucar.edu ___ CF-metadata mailing list CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu http

[CF-metadata] standard name aliases

2014-03-18 Thread Ethan Davis
alias terms. ... Just found this in the About the CF Standard Name Table page: The use of an alias for the standard_name attribute when writing new data is not recommended. Perhaps some discussion of standard name aliases should be added to Section 3.3 Standard Name? Ethan -- Ethan Davis

[CF-metadata] CF data model discussion and OGC CF-netCDF docs

2014-04-11 Thread Ethan Davis
with CRS and is more recently trying to include concepts to cover dimensionless vertical coordinates (sorry, not finding that specification). Hope that's helpful, Ethan [1] http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/netcdf [2] https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=51908 -- Ethan Davis

Re: [CF-metadata] Meeting invite: Advancing netCDF-CF, 24-26 May 2016, Boulder, CO, USA

2016-03-30 Thread Ethan Davis
.gov/trac/ticket/80 > , > which will be in CF 1.7, as will http://cf-trac.llnl.gov/trac/ticket/69, > which > allows WKT to be stored in a CF attribute. CF and OGC CRS have different > views > of the data space, so I don't think we can expect to make them look the > same, >

Re: [CF-metadata] Meeting invite: Advancing netCDF-CF, 24-26 May 2016, Boulder, CO, USA

2016-03-30 Thread Ethan Davis
weather data. These conventions will work for polar orbiting > satellite level 1b space weather data also. Level 2 space weather products > ill require additional constructs, > > Business has been lousy. Otherwise, I would love to come ! > > > very respectfully, > >

Re: [CF-metadata] Meeting invite: Advancing netCDF-CF, 24-26 May 2016, Boulder, CO, USA

2016-03-30 Thread Ethan Davis
). > > - Steve > > > > > On 3/27/2016 9:24 PM, Ethan Davis wrote: > > Hi all, > > As some of you have heard, we are holding a meeting to discuss current and > future netCDF-CF efforts and directions. The m

Re: [CF-metadata] Meeting invite: Advancing netCDF-CF, 24-26 May 2016, Boulder, CO, USA

2016-04-01 Thread Ethan Davis
he bills. * > > Thanks ! > > randy > > > > _ > > Randy C Horne (rho...@excaliburlabs.com) > Principal Engineer, Excalibur Laboratories Inc. > voice & fax: (321) 952.5100 > cell: (321) 693.1074 > url: http://www.excaliburlabs.

[CF-metadata] EGU splinter meeting: Advancing netCDF-CF for the Geoscience Community

2016-04-18 Thread Ethan Davis
Hi all, Just a reminder for anyone attending EGU in Vienna this week. Please join us for a splinter meeting to discuss netCDF-CF (session SMP32 [1]). The meeting will be in room 2.96 on 21 April 2016 (Thursday), 15:30-17:00. Hope to see you there. Ethan [1]

[CF-metadata] NetCDF-CF session at AGU: call for contributions

2016-07-11 Thread Ethan Davis
[2]. The abstract submission deadline is the 3rd of August, 11:59 P.M. EDT. Thank you, Ethan Davis Stefano Nativi Lesley Wyborn Ben Domenico [1] http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2016/ [2] https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session13459 ___ CF

Re: [CF-metadata] Temporal nitpicks.

2016-09-23 Thread Ethan Davis
Hi Chris, > I'm going to venture a guess that the netcdf Java libs can [handle the > "T"] (anyone know for sure?) Yes, the netCDF-Java library can parse date/time strings with the "T". Ethan On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 1:26 PM, Chris Barker wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2016

Re: [CF-metadata] Temporal nitpicks.

2016-09-23 Thread Ethan Davis
I totally agree. Don't deprecate anything but definitely encourage ISO 8601:2004(E) with the caveat of requiring an offset-from-Z indicator. Cheers, Ethan On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 9:38 AM, Bob Simons - NOAA Federal < bob.sim...@noaa.gov> wrote: > Seth McGinnis said: > "I hesitate to support

Re: [CF-metadata] Feedback requested on proposed CF Simple Geometries

2016-09-22 Thread Ethan Davis
Hi all, Just a quick note on Chris' CF 2 question (until I have a bit more time to think more fully on this discussion) ... The EC netCDF-CF project that Ben mentioned is working on a number of CF extension efforts that are looking to use features of the netCDF enhanced data model. Those

[CF-metadata] Advancing netCDF-CF workshop: agenda and hotel block rate deadline

2017-08-10 Thread Ethan Davis
Hi all, We just posted the agenda for the workshop [1]. There will be some minor tweaks to the schedule coming. Please take a look and let us know if you have any suggestions for changes to the content or schedule. We will have a session for a series of short lightning talks. There is a spot to

Re: [CF-metadata] Advancing netCDF-CF workshop on 6-8 Sept 2017 in Boulder, CO USA

2017-07-26 Thread Ethan Davis
re for Atmospheric Science > Department of Meteorology > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > University of Reading (UK) > http://antonio.cofino.es > > On 26/07/17 18:10, Ethan Davis wrote: > > Hi all, > > As many of you know, we are holding an "A

[CF-metadata] Advancing netCDF-CF workshop on 6-8 Sept 2017 in Boulder, CO USA

2017-07-26 Thread Ethan Davis
Hi all, As many of you know, we are holding an "Advancing netCDF-CF" workshop [1] on 6-8 September 2017 at UCAR in Boulder, CO USA. This workshop will focus on efforts to advance the Climate and Forecast (CF) metadata conventions for netCDF (netCDF-CF). The meeting is being hosted by the

[CF-metadata] Save the Date: Advancing netCDF-CF Workshop, 6-8 Sept 2017 in Boulder, CO USA

2017-05-08 Thread Ethan Davis
Hi all, We will be holding an "Advancing netCDF-CF" workshop on 6-8 September 2017 at UCAR in Boulder, CO USA. Please save the date. More information will be coming soon. Thanks, The Workshop Organizing Team ___ CF-metadata mailing list

Re: [CF-metadata] Some issues with example H.2 / timeseries

2018-06-11 Thread Ethan Davis
Hi Heiko and David, Its been awhile since I looked at this but I don't think the Trac ticket covers the order of the dimensions. Here's the PR I put together in February for the missing string length dimension issue. It adds definitions for dimensions but does nothing regarding dimension order.

Re: [CF-metadata] 2018 netCDF-CF Workshop, 19-20 June 2018, Reading, UK

2018-06-01 Thread Ethan Davis
Forgot to mention ... There will be WebEx for remote participation. Connection and dial-in details will be posted on the workshop web page once available. On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 3:07 PM, Ethan Davis wrote: > Hi all, > > Just a reminder that the 2018 netCDF-CF Workshop [1] will be

[CF-metadata] 2018 netCDF-CF Workshop, 19-20 June 2018, Reading, UK

2018-06-01 Thread Ethan Davis
Hi all, Just a reminder that the 2018 netCDF-CF Workshop [1] will be on 19-20 June 2018 at the University of Reading in the UK. The agenda, as it currently stands, is available on the workshop web page [1] (or directly here [2]). Suggestions are still welcome. If you plan to attend, please be

[CF-metadata] 2018 netCDF-CF Workshop, 19-20 June 2018, Reading, UK

2018-05-03 Thread Ethan Davis
Hi all, As many of you know, the 2018 netCDF-CF Workshop [1] will be on 19-20 June 2018 at the University of Reading in the UK. This workshop will focus on efforts to advance the Climate and Forecast (CF) metadata conventions for netCDF (netCDF-CF). The meeting is being hosted by the National

[CF-metadata] Bad reference to example in CF 6.1 "Labels"

2018-07-24 Thread Ethan Davis
Hi all, The last sentence at the end of the first paragraph in Section 6.1 "Labels" [1] says: Example H.1, "Point data" illustrates another application for labels. However, that example doesn't have any labels. Section 6.1 was rewritten when the DSG chapter was added. Looking at the last draft

Re: [CF-metadata] Platform Heave

2018-08-29 Thread Ethan Davis
Hi Jim, all, I'm a bit confused by the "clockwise" and "anticlockwise". You mention the orientation of the observer but not the location/orientation of the clock. My assumptions (not sure why) for the clock: for roll, the observer (who is facing forward) would be facing the clock; for pitch, the

Re: [CF-metadata] Platform Heave

2018-08-29 Thread Ethan Davis
r as pointing forward and the Z axis unit vector as pointing down. > > Thoughts? > > Grace and peace, > > Jim > > On 8/29/18 1:32 PM, John Helly wrote: > > Perhaps one should refer to the discipline of hydrostatics for help with > this? This paper, pulled from a q

Re: [CF-metadata] Units of projection_x_coordinate values in "Geospatial projection"

2018-04-10 Thread Ethan Davis
nal and in use, it would > be major rework for GOES-R to use a yet to be defined standard name (such > as projection_x_angilar_coordinate and projection_y_angular_coordinate). > > > Not sure what to d about this …. > > > > v/r > > randy > > > > On Apr 9

Re: [CF-metadata] Units of projection_x_coordinate values in "Geospatial projection"

2018-04-10 Thread Ethan Davis
meters (not radians). > > > > > > The GOES-R designers (specifically me) inadvertently used these two > > > standard names, not realizing they should NOT have used them because a > > > standard name can not have two different canonical units. >

[CF-metadata] Units of projection_x_coordinate values in "Geospatial projection"

2018-04-09 Thread Ethan Davis
Hi all, The "Geostationary projection" section of Appendix F "Grid Mappings" says The x (abscissa) and y (ordinate) rectangular coordinates are identified by the standard_name attribute values projection_x_coordinate and projection_y_coordinate respectively. In the case of this projection, the

Re: [CF-metadata] Units of projection_x_coordinate values in "Geospatial projection"

2018-04-18 Thread Ethan Davis
define a new > > > standard name and change App F. > > > > > > > > However, I realise that you need some workrounds to use during the > > > > (possibly > > > > infinite) time before this change is thoroughly implemented, and for > > > &

[CF-metadata] Save The Date! 2018 netCDF-CF Workshop, 19-20 June 2018, Reading, UK

2018-03-21 Thread Ethan Davis
Hi all, Please save the date for the 2018 netCDF-CF Workshop, it will be on 19-20 June 2018 at the University of Reading in the UK. More information will be coming soon. Thanks, The Workshop Organizing Committee ___ CF-metadata mailing list

[CF-metadata] Save-the-Date for 2019 CF Workshop

2019-04-09 Thread Ethan Davis
Hi all, We will hold a 2019 CF Workshop during the week of 15 July 2019. It will be held as a series of sessions within the ESIP Summer Meeting [1] in Tacoma, WA (about 40 miles south of Seattle). We are looking at a day long meeting (probably spread across two half days) but don’t have the exact

[CF-metadata] CF Workshop in July

2019-06-03 Thread Ethan Davis
Hi all, The CF Workshop to be held in Tacoma, WA (south of Seattle) in July will start in the late afternoon on 16 July (Tuesday) and continue most of the day of 17 July (Wednesday). Here's the session schedule (Seattle time - US Pacific) and the current rough plan for the agenda: Tuesday, 16

[CF-metadata] CF Workshop - remote participation

2019-07-16 Thread Ethan Davis
Hi all, Remote participation information is in the individual session pages: Session 1 (in about 3 hours) - https://2019esipsummermeeting.sched.com/event/PtPD/netcdf-cf-workshop-part-i Ethan ___ CF-metadata mailing list CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu