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#95: Development of CF 1.5 Data Model -----------------------------+---------------------------------------------- Reporter: markh | Owner: [email protected] Type: task | Status: new Priority: medium | Milestone: Component: cf-conventions | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: -----------------------------+---------------------------------------------- Comment (by markh): Replying to [comment:19 ngalbraith]: > Can we assume that when you use the term 'array' you include singletons? Or does that need to be stated explicitly? Do you differentiate between an array of size one and a singleton? I think that an array may always be of size one and that this ecplicitly allows singletons. We can state this explicitly if that helps. > Is the definition a little too specific? > '' > 'An auxiliary coordinate construct provides auxiliary information for interpreting the cells of an ordered list of one or more domain axes of the field.' > '' > The information in the aux coordinate isn't necessarily 'auxiliary' - only the construct is (i.e. as an alternative to a dimension coordinate). The aux coordinate doesn't need to be monotonic, and in some cases may not be ordered. > > Would a short version could be less ... limiting: > '' > 'An auxiliary coordinate construct provides information for interpreting one or more domain axes.''' I like this, and I agree that auxiliary part is how the Field interprets it, rather than a characteristic of the dcoordinate data. > Side note: We use aux coordinates to provide heights of meteorological sensors in files that may have subsurface data with a depth dimension. We may also use them for moorings that have a singleton lat/long dimension coordinate but also have GPS time series data. -- Ticket URL: <https://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/trac/ticket/95#comment:22> CF Metadata <http://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/> CF Metadata This message came from the CF Trac system. To unsubscribe, without unsubscribing to the regular cf-metadata list, send a message to "[email protected]" with "unsubscribe cf-metadata" in the body of your message.
