Re: [CF-metadata] FW: netcdf for particle trajectories

2011-11-29 Thread Chris.Barker
On 11/29/11 4:15 AM, Jonathan Gregory wrote: That could be done if you can represent the data using a new kind of featureType to be added to the CF chapter on discrete sampling geometries, which will be included in CF 1.6 (coming soon). The text for the discrete sampling geometry chapter is at ht

Re: [CF-metadata] Storing outline information in NetCDF/CF?

2011-11-29 Thread Rich Signell
Minor note: The "official" GMT documentation for this is at: http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/gmt/html/GMT_Docs.html#x1-224000K.3 On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Russ Rew wrote: > >> Is there a way to store outline information in NetCDF/CF? = >> >> >> I am looking for a way to store e.g. glacier outl

Re: [CF-metadata] Storing outline information in NetCDF/CF?

2011-11-29 Thread Russ Rew
> Is there a way to store outline information in NetCDF/CF? = > > > I am looking for a way to store e.g. glacier outline, sea ice edge/extent e= > tc = > > in NetCDF. It would simplify data management within heterogeneous systems. = > > Data can then be dumped to Shapefiles, KML etc upon user

Re: [CF-metadata] Proposal for better handling vector quantities in CF

2011-11-29 Thread Jonathan Gregory
Dear Thomas > Thus, although I am unsure we should impose it from the convention, e.g. by > allowing to define some attributes from the "umbrella" level (such as > :coordinates), I see little use for defining vector objects that do not share > all their dimensions. In your umbrella proposal, a

Re: [CF-metadata] FW: netcdf for particle trajectories

2011-11-29 Thread Jonathan Gregory
Sorry, quite right, this is correct. > http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/caron/public/CFch9-may10.pdf Thanks, Rich. J ___ CF-metadata mailing list CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata

Re: [CF-metadata] new TEOS-10 standard names

2011-11-29 Thread Durack, Paul J.
Thanks for all your work getting this fairly scattered discussion into a submittable shape Alison! I've supplemented your comments with some additional descriptive text below. I have additionally added a "References:" attribute for each of these proposed variables if applicable, I am not sure whet

[CF-metadata] CF website links to standard names status pages

2011-11-29 Thread Jonathan Gregory
Dear Alison > Today I have added some links to the CF website Standard Names, Documents and > Discussions pages. All three pages contain the same new links to the CEDA > vocabulary manager status pages for standard names. This is a very welcome development. I am sure people will appreciate bein

[CF-metadata] CF website links to standard names status pages

2011-11-29 Thread alison.pamment
Dear All, Today I have added some links to the CF website Standard Names, Documents and Discussions pages. All three pages contain the same new links to the CEDA vocabulary manager status pages for standard names. The "status of current work" page shows the status of standard names proposals th

Re: [CF-metadata] FW: netcdf for particle trajectories

2011-11-29 Thread Rich Signell
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/caron/public/CFch9-may10.pdf On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 7:15 AM, Jonathan Gregory wrote: > Dear Chris > > > >I think its time to start using netcdf-4 for large collections of point > > >data which need to be compressed. Instead of first making a standard, we > > >n

Re: [CF-metadata] FW: netcdf for particle trajectories

2011-11-29 Thread Jonathan Gregory
Dear Chris > >I think its time to start using netcdf-4 for large collections of point > >data which need to be compressed. Instead of first making a standard, we > >need to try out the possibilities and see how it performs. > > That may be true, time to move on eventually! However, you can use >

[CF-metadata] Storing outline information in NetCDF/CF?

2011-11-29 Thread Øystein Godøy
Dear all, Is there a way to store outline information in NetCDF/CF? I am looking for a way to store e.g. glacier outline, sea ice edge/extent etc in NetCDF. It would simplify data management within heterogeneous systems. Data can then be dumped to Shapefiles, KML etc upon user request, but for

Re: [CF-metadata] standards for probabilities

2011-11-29 Thread Vegard Bønes
Hi, Unfortunately, I did not see your email until today, so I have not taken it into consideration when choosing how to handle probabilities for myself. Like Roy, however, I believe that expressing probabilities as dimensions rather than attributes is the best approach for this. The problem w

Re: [CF-metadata] standards for probabilities

2011-11-29 Thread Vegard Bønes
Hi! Based on the input I have received in this list, I have done the following for my own project. Any comments are very welcome: A new standard name modifier: confidence, used like this: float wind_speed_confidence(time, latitude, longitude) ; wind_speed_confidence:units