[CF-metadata] Use of flag_value and flag_meaning

2011-12-07 Thread Weatherall, Pauline
Dear All, I am developing a grid file that uses a flag that potentially has up to 8000 different meanings (it references the provenance of the data populating a given grid cell). Is there any alternative to documenting this in flag_value and flag_meaning?' Any advise on this would be really

Re: [CF-metadata] [thredds] Compression by Gathering working with Thredds?

2011-12-07 Thread John Caron
Hi Matthias: The CDM/TDS does not support Compression by Gathering, nor does any other package i know of. There was some internal talk in CF of deprecating this. I am cc'ing the CF list in case anyone there wants to comment. Have you looked at using netcdf-4 with compression? John On