Do you really need an attribute here? Can you construct a scenario in which
increasing values consistently represent a _lesser_ pressure/depth of water?
Since the variable really is representing pressure, not depth of water, I think
it's safe to say that increasing values of course represent
Thanks for the reply John.
Just to confirm, the vertical coordinate is described by a number of
other metadata attributes such as axis, standard_name,
_CoordinateAxisType etc. and therefore wouldn't expect any problems with
applications discovering the vertical coordinate.
Regards,
Glenn
Thanks for the reply John.
The need to add an attribute stems from a requirement passed to me to
add an attribute to denote what the meaning of positive or negative
values represent. This is due to the fact that in addition to the
pressure gauge reading, which I concede would report a greater
Dear list,
Was there any resolution to the issue I brought up?
Thanks,
Chris
Original Message
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:59:09 -0700
From: Steve Hankin steven.c.han...@noaa.gov
Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] CF feature type trajectory (Ch. 9; May 10,
2011) and axis
On 7/20/2011 3:43 AM, Comiskey, Glenn wrote:
Thanks for the reply John.
Just to confirm, the vertical coordinate is described by a number of
other metadata attributes such as axis, standard_name,
_CoordinateAxisType etc. and therefore wouldn't expect any problems with
applications discovering
So I think what is confusing for me is the conflation of directionality with a
non-geospatial parameter. While I understand that pressure is a very close
proxy for depth in this context, it isn't really a geospatial variable. (This
is a narrow perspective, obviously; in casual use, a lot of
