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#79: Handling and formatting of vector quantities in CF
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  Reporter:  lavergne        |       Owner:  [email protected]
      Type:  enhancement     |      Status:  reopened                     
  Priority:  medium          |   Milestone:                               
 Component:  cf-conventions  |     Version:                               
Resolution:                  |    Keywords:  vector                       
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Comment (by [email protected]):

 Folks:

 I have spent some time thinking about how to use (and possibly extend the
 CF standard) for space weather products, which essentially boil down to
 data sets derived from sensors with one or more apertures looking off into
 outer space.

 As a result, these use cases need 3 dimensional vectors.  In the case of
 the more structure approach, the conventions will need to specifically
 include support for 3D vectors.  But this alone does not completely solve
 my problem.  These space weather product vectors also have a 3D field of
 view around the sensor aperture's boresight that need to be captured.
 With the more structured approach, additional vector component conventions
 will need to be captured.

 The point here is that the more structured approach is likely to be
 enhanced/tweaked repeatedly, if not on an on-going basis, moving forward.

 Thus, the stability of the conventions is enhanced (not to mention the
 rate in which progress can be achieved by data producers) with the
 simpler, less structured approach moving forward.

 very respectfully,

 randy

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