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#104: Clarify the interpretation of scalar coordinate variables -----------------------------+---------------------------------------------- Reporter: jonathan | Owner: [email protected] Type: defect | Status: new Priority: medium | Milestone: Component: cf-conventions | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: -----------------------------+---------------------------------------------- Comment (by edward.campbell): Hello, I strongly disagree with your proposed change. You claim that this is a clarification and not a material change. I do not agree with this. Specifically, you wish to append a section stating that if a data variable has two or more scalars coordinate variables those scalar coordinate variables are independent. This is not currently the case - they may be independent, they may not be - the conventions make no assertion either way. If the dimensions are not specified one cannot currently infer independence. Put another way, without a dimension (a direction if you like) these are true scalars as opposed to unit vectors. Your proposed change will impose a single interpretation of existing data where a single interpretation does not currently exist. That in my view constitutes a material change. Ed -- Ticket URL: <https://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/trac/ticket/104#comment:4> 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.
