Re: [CF-metadata] udunits time units question

2011-04-01 Thread John Caron
Hi Martin and all: Im wondering what essential methods a calendar library needs to have to support, eg 360 day calendars? The only one that comes to mind is to calculate the difference between two dates in, say, seconds? What else? John On 4/1/2011 12:55 AM, Schultz, Martin wrote: Hi Chris

Re: [CF-metadata] udunits time units question

2011-04-01 Thread John Caron
On 4/1/2011 5:09 AM, Jon Blower wrote: I guess such a library also needs the ability to add and subtract fixed durations to and from reference date/times. where the duration is in a fixed number of seconds, i assume? so we have: CalendarDate d1, d2; long secs = d1.diff(d2); d1 = d2.add(

[CF-metadata] physical vs dimensional units

2011-03-31 Thread John Caron
udunits is a dimensional units library, for manipulating powers of the fundamental dimensions (length, mass, time, charge, temperature). this is necessary but not complete for capturing the meaning of the physical units of our data. We also need units like kg/kg, for which the udunit

Re: [CF-metadata] udunits time unit question

2011-03-26 Thread John Caron
, but it does add perhaps unneeded complexity. John On 3/26/2011 7:46 AM, Don Murray wrote: John- On 3/25/11 4:54 PM, John Caron wrote: On 3/22/2011 6:53 AM, John Caron wrote: Consider: int time(sample=1001); :long_name = Measurement time; :standard_name = time; :units = days since 1970-01-01; vs

Re: [CF-metadata] udunits time unit question

2011-03-25 Thread John Caron
On 3/22/2011 6:53 AM, John Caron wrote: Consider: int time(sample=1001); :long_name = Measurement time; :standard_name = time; :units = days since 1970-01-01; vs int time(sample=1001); :long_name = Measurement time; :standard_name = time; :units = 3 days

Re: [CF-metadata] udunits handling of fuzzy time units

2011-03-25 Thread John Caron
On 3/22/2011 12:56 PM, Steve Hankin wrote: On 3/22/2011 5:40 AM, John Caron wrote: On 3/21/2011 11:55 AM, Karl Taylor wrote: Dear all, I haven't had time to follow all the discussion in detail, but in general I think CF should not add additional complexity unless the current way

Re: [CF-metadata] udunits handling of fuzzy time units

2011-03-22 Thread John Caron
On 3/21/2011 11:14 AM, Steve Hankin wrote: On 3/17/2011 5:20 PM, John Caron wrote: On 3/17/2011 12:19 PM, Steve Hankin wrote: On 3/17/2011 9:50 AM, Christopher Barker wrote: On 3/16/11 8:47 AM, John Caron wrote: 1. time instants vs time duration - one must distinguish between

Re: [CF-metadata] udunits handling of fuzzy time units

2011-03-22 Thread John Caron
On 3/21/2011 11:55 AM, Karl Taylor wrote: Dear all, I haven't had time to follow all the discussion in detail, but in general I think CF should not add additional complexity unless the current way of encoding time is incomplete. As far as I know the encoding is indeed complete and given

Re: [CF-metadata] udunits handling of fuzzy time units

2011-03-22 Thread John Caron
On 3/22/2011 6:40 AM, John Caron wrote: Anyway, I think the reliance that CF has on udunits is, um, suboptimal. but only for calendar time units - for dimensional units its the right stuff ___ CF-metadata mailing list CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu http

Re: [CF-metadata] udunits handling of fuzzy time units

2011-03-18 Thread John Caron
hmm, where do you see that part about the iso8601 string implies a moment and a width a.k.a resolution. i was reading it that the duration = width spec was separate. in any case, this probably highlights the need to be specific about what CF semantics are. On 3/18/2011 12:27 PM, Benno

Re: [CF-metadata] udunits handling of fuzzy time units

2011-03-18 Thread John Caron
On 3/17/2011 10:50 AM, Christopher Barker wrote: 2. calendar time - calendar time representation needs to be clarified - udunits should no longer be the reference library for calendar time. a new reference library is needed, which handles non-standard calendars. again, the lib is not the

Re: [CF-metadata] udunits handling of fuzzy time units

2011-03-18 Thread John Caron
On 3/18/2011 4:11 AM, Schultz, Martin wrote: Dear all, in our work, we have often been confronted with the current limitations where the only times allowed by CF are real times using the days since date syntax and assuming the Gregorian calendar. We often have climatological fields as

Re: [CF-metadata] fuzzy time units

2011-03-18 Thread John Caron
On 3/18/2011 9:17 AM, Bob Simons wrote: On 3/17/2011 5:20 PM, cf-metadata-requ...@cgd.ucar.edu wrote: From my POV, the problem is that users need more expressiveness for the calendar time. I certainly do. For yearly data, years since base_date by calendar field (or whatever) is consistent,

Re: [CF-metadata] udunits handling of fuzzy time units

2011-03-18 Thread John Caron
On 3/18/2011 10:21 AM, Christopher Barker wrote: John -- I'm wondering if you have any idea about what the API of a reference lib should look like? If a time axis is defines as: calendar months since January, 2008, what sort of functions do you image would exist to deal with that? i am

Re: [CF-metadata] udunits handling of fuzzy time units

2011-03-16 Thread John Caron
On 3/15/2011 1:30 PM, tim.nighting...@stfc.ac.uk wrote: Dear All, At the nit-picking level, day (and hour and minute) are not necessarily stable units either, because of the occasional appearance of leap seconds. While this won't be of much concern for many users, it can be important for

Re: [CF-metadata] udunits handling of fuzzy time units

2011-03-16 Thread John Caron
On 3/16/2011 9:39 AM, John Caron wrote: On 3/15/2011 1:30 PM, tim.nighting...@stfc.ac.uk wrote: Dear All, At the nit-picking level, day (and hour and minute) are not necessarily stable units either, because of the occasional appearance of leap seconds. While this won't be of much concern

Re: [CF-metadata] udunits handling of fuzzy time units

2011-03-16 Thread John Caron
Hi Jonathan: On 3/16/2011 10:46 AM, Jonathan Gregory wrote: Dear John Thanks for your useful summary. thanks! - udunits should no longer be the reference library for calendar time. a new reference library is needed, which handles non-standard calendars. If udunits itself were extended

Re: [CF-metadata] udunits handling of fuzzy time units

2011-03-16 Thread John Caron
-metadata-boun...@cgd.ucar.edu [mailto:cf-metadata-boun...@cgd.ucar.edu] On Behalf Of John Caron Sent: 16 March 2011 17:00 To: cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] udunits handling of fuzzy time units On 3/16/2011 9:39 AM, John Caron wrote: On 3/15/2011 1:30 PM, tim.nighting...@stfc.ac.uk

Re: [CF-metadata] udunits handling of fuzzy time units

2011-03-16 Thread John Caron
On 3/16/2011 11:15 AM, Jonathan Gregory wrote: Dear John Suppose we added the UTC_Calendar to CF, which tracks leap seconds etc. So if one had the time coordinate days since 1800-01-01 with values = 0,1,2,3... and we need the resulting coordinates to be 1800-01-01, 1800-01-02, 1800-01-03,

Re: [CF-metadata] udunits handling of fuzzy time units

2011-03-15 Thread John Caron
spaced.) fuzzy in the sense that they are not really constant, though udunits assumes they are. Jon -Original Message- From: cf-metadata-boun...@cgd.ucar.edu [mailto:cf-metadata-boun...@cgd.ucar.edu] On Behalf Of John Caron Sent: 15 March 2011 00:31 To: cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu Subject

Re: [CF-metadata] udunits handling of fuzzy time units

2011-03-15 Thread John Caron
On 3/15/2011 5:03 AM, Karl Taylor wrote: I agree with Jon. By definition, I think, a unit of measure must not vary; hence month is not a proper unit and not only depends on month of year, but also on assumed calendar (and similarly for year). Therefore, I think months since and years since

Re: [CF-metadata] udunits handling of fuzzy time units

2011-03-15 Thread John Caron
] On Behalf Of John Caron Sent: 15 March 2011 13:02 To: cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] udunits handling of fuzzy time units On 3/15/2011 5:03 AM, Karl Taylor wrote: I agree with Jon. By definition, I think, a unit of measure must not vary; hence month is not a proper unit

Re: [CF-metadata] udunits handling of fuzzy time units

2011-03-15 Thread John Caron
-Original Message- From: cf-metadata-boun...@cgd.ucar.edu mailto:cf-metadata-boun...@cgd.ucar.edu [mailto:cf-metadata-boun...@cgd.ucar.edu mailto:cf-metadata-boun...@cgd.ucar.edu] On Behalf Of John Caron Sent: 15 March 2011 13:02 To: cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu

Re: [CF-metadata] udunits handling of fuzzy time units

2011-03-15 Thread John Caron
Hi Steve: On 3/15/2011 10:13 AM, Steve Hankin wrote: John et. al., It looks like this thread has reached reasonable conclusions: 1. units of days (or secs or mins) can provide an accurate encoding for months (days since 1930-01-01) 2. units of measure should not be quantities that

Re: [CF-metadata] udunits handling of fuzzy time units

2011-03-15 Thread John Caron
On 3/15/2011 12:07 PM, Steve Hankin wrote: On 3/15/2011 9:28 AM, John Caron wrote: On 3/15/2011 9:19 AM, Benno Blumenthal wrote: I am sorry, but this conversation is more confusing that it needs to be -- once calendar 360_day is chosen, there is nothing fuzzy about month or year, and once

[CF-metadata] udunits handling of fuzzy time units

2011-03-14 Thread John Caron
because udunits converts units like months and years to a fixed number of seconds, one cant really use things like months and years as units, since you get things like this: 0 months since 1930-01-01 == 1930-01-01T00:00:00Z 1 months since 1930-01-01 == 1930-01-31T10:29:03Z 2 months since

Re: [CF-metadata] dimensionless vertical coordinates

2011-03-11 Thread John Caron
Hi Yilmaz : On 3/11/2011 8:55 AM, Yilmaz Arslanoglu wrote: Hi; I was wondering the following points regarding dimensionless vertical coordinates: 1) Assume that we have a variable U (let's say ocean current eastward) and is defined on a dimensionless vertical coordinate (for example ocean-s

Re: [CF-metadata] ESRI implementation of ellipsoidal-earth

2011-02-03 Thread John Caron
On 2/3/2011 1:54 AM, Heiko Klein wrote: I can confirm Davids observation. The European atmospheric models I'm working with use also unchanged WGS84 (geodetic) coordinates with a spherical earth. The proj4 projection library (starting with 4.5, I think) tries to solve this in the following

Re: [CF-metadata] Request for standard_name=sea_binary_mask

2011-02-02 Thread John Caron
On 1/4/2011 11:49 AM, Christopher Barker wrote: On 1/4/11 10:15 AM, John Caron wrote: So exactly how much does NetCDF-Java do for you? Can I ask it for a land-sea mask and it will look for the multiple ways that might be stored and give it back to me? If so, pretty cool! It cant do that right

[CF-metadata] ESRI implementation of ellipsoidal-earth

2011-02-01 Thread John Caron
Apparently ESRI is willing to add support for CF 1.5 grid_mapping attributes for ellipsoidal-earth/geodetic-datum definitions in the Grid Mappings and Projections specification. They are looking for sample data, especially using ellipsoidal parameters

Re: [CF-metadata] CF feature types and definitions

2011-01-03 Thread John Caron
in this vocabulary, without having to distort the data into something else. Thanks - Nan On 12/23/10 11:06 AM, John Caron wrote: Attached is a message from Bob Simon at ERD/NOAA pointing out the inconsistencies in data type and feature type names in various Unidata related efforts. The almost

[CF-metadata] CF feature types and definitions

2010-12-23 Thread John Caron
it will be added to and clarified over time. John Original Message Subject:Re: [netcdf-java] CDM names Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 08:48:41 -0700 From: John Caron ca...@unidata.ucar.edu To: netcdf-j...@unidata.ucar.edu Hi Bob: Yes, you are right, there are too many

[CF-metadata] help with gaussian latitudes

2010-12-10 Thread John Caron
im looking at an grib1 file from Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling, downloaded here: http://cera-www.dkrz.de/WDCC/ui/Compact.jsp?acronym=CCCma_CGCM2_SRES_A2 the docs on that page says that The atmospheric component AGCM2 is a spectral model with triangular truncation at wave no. 32 and 10

[CF-metadata] Particle Track Feature Type (was: Re: point observation data in CF 1.4)

2010-11-18 Thread John Caron
Im thinking that we need a new feature type for this. Im calling it particleTrack but theres probably a better name. My reasoning is that the nested table representation of trajectories is: Table { traj_id; Table { time; lat, lon, z; data; } } but this case has the inner

Re: [CF-metadata] point observation data in CF 1.4

2010-11-04 Thread John Caron
03:19, John Caron wrote: 1) It seems clear that at each time step, you need to write out the data for whatever particles currently exist. This is a very fair assessment in our case. One could generalize a bit more: We have data organized as a series of time steps (as the primary dimension

Re: [CF-metadata] point observation data in CF 1.4

2010-11-03 Thread John Caron
On 11/2/2010 2:45 PM, Christopher Barker wrote: On 11/2/10 6:09 AM, Wright, Bruce wrote: Sorry for a late follow-up (and once again breaking the thread), but below is some feedback from our guys running the particle trajectory models at the Met Office, which I think highlight the difficulties

Re: [CF-metadata] New standard names for satellite obs data

2010-10-20 Thread John Caron
On 10/19/2010 12:55 PM, Mike Grant wrote: On 19/10/10 14:21, Aleksandar Jelenak wrote: Actually, I don't think it is possible to use 'time' standard name in such cases. If I correctly interpret CF rules for using standard names, 'time' data can be only in the physically-equivalent units to

Re: [CF-metadata] Is there some samples of netCDF CF-1.0/1.4 for polar stereographic and other non-lat lon geo-grided data

2010-10-19 Thread John Caron
On 10/18/2010 2:40 PM, stephane.poir...@oifii.org wrote: Hi All, I am new to meeting CF-1.0/1.4 compliance in netCDF file. Is there some samples of netCDF CF-1.0/1.4 for polar stereographic and other non-lat lon geo-grided data? We are having trouble having the UNIDATA.UCAR.EDU

Re: [CF-metadata] point observation data in CF 1.4

2010-10-12 Thread John Caron
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Re: [CF-metadata] Multidimensional variables as discrete sampling geometry data?

2010-10-07 Thread john caron
i agree that satellite data needs to be a seperate convention. you can join the conversation by subscribing to cf-satellite at http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/support/help/ On 10/7/2010 3:08 PM, Steve Hankin wrote: Hi Aleksandar, Satellite datasets have a range of needs that the

Re: [CF-metadata] add_offset for time dimension

2010-09-16 Thread John Caron
On 9/16/2010 11:04 AM, Jonathan Gregory wrote: Dear Upendra add_offset is included in CF for data variables, but not coordinate variables. Its intention is to help with packing data (CF section 8.1). For time coordinate variables, however, an offset can effectively be included in the units,

Re: [CF-metadata] netCDF time axis comforming to CF-1.0 convention

2010-07-23 Thread John Caron
the units appear ok. is the CF checker case sensitive on the t ? On 7/23/2010 12:27 PM, Karl Taylor wrote: Stephane, axis=T is correct. I'm guessing, the units on your time coordinate aren't recognized by udunits. Karl On 7/23/10 11:02 AM, Stephane Poirier wrote: Hi All, I am trying to

Re: [CF-metadata] Grid mapping information

2010-07-21 Thread John Caron
Rosalyn Hatcher wrote: My grid mapping is Equidistant Cylindrical. SO in the nc I set as GLOBAL ATTRIBUTE -- attname=Conventions value=CF-1.4 attname=grid_mapping value=Cylindrical Some question: 1) A collegue of mine told

[CF-metadata] model data on a spherical earth vs ellipsoidal

2010-07-07 Thread John Caron
into spherical geocentric coordinates? If not, should model results be assumed to exist on the spherical datum or the original spheroidal one? We are wondering if others have pondered this question and would be willing to share their thoughts? John Caron ___ CF

Re: [CF-metadata] standard name grammar

2010-05-04 Thread John Caron
Dear Jonathan: Wow! That's a bit of work there. Ill let others comment on the technical details, but Ill just say thanks for all your time and deep effort. John On 5/3/2010 10:55 AM, Jonathan Gregory wrote: Dear all Stimulated by Robert Muetzelfeldt's initiative to produce a grammar for CF

Re: [CF-metadata] Separating geolocation/timing co-ordinates from measurement data

2010-04-28 Thread John Caron
On 4/28/2010 8:14 AM, Stephen Emsley wrote: We have multiple satellite geophysical data products which share the same set of geo-location and timing co-ordinates. To avoid product bloat (e.g. from approx. 30GB to 90GB per orbit) we are considering the possibility of having a single file

Re: [CF-metadata] Default datum for latitude and longitude?

2010-04-19 Thread John Caron
In the CDM, we assume a spherical earth when no other info is given. This reflects the early history of CF and CDM in dealing mostly with global models. WGS84 is the default ellipsoid used eg for UTM projection. It would be well worth CF specifying default assumptions as well as how to do

Re: [CF-metadata] ensemble dimension

2010-03-18 Thread John Caron
Jonathan Gregory wrote: Dear all realization is fine as a standard name. I had forgotten we had introduced it. I withdraw my suggestion of ensemble_member_identifier. Thus, the standard name (of realization) can be used to identify an ensemble axis. I think that providing an axis attribute as

Re: [CF-metadata] ensemble dimension

2010-03-16 Thread John Caron
Hi Jennifer, in this instance, how do you know its an ensemble dimension, as opposed to say, a wavelength ? is it ens:long_name = ensemble member ?? On 3/16/2010 12:36 PM, Jennifer Adams wrote: In the absence of a standard, I have also made some choices about how to handle ensemble metadata

Re: [CF-metadata] ensemble dimension

2010-03-16 Thread John Caron
Hi Doug: Looks to be the same as Paco's. Do you know what was modified? On 3/16/2010 1:46 PM, Doug Schuster wrote: NCAR uses a modified version of Paco's file structure for TIGGE output. All ensemble members found in the file require the same single model initialization time, the same

Re: [CF-metadata] ensemble dimension

2010-03-16 Thread John Caron
On 3/16/2010 11:22 AM, Jonathan Gregory wrote: Dear John Im not sure if we ever converged on how to write ensemble files. No, we didn't. If I remember correctly, we couldn't agree on the relationship between attributes and coordinates, and that was a sticking-point. I thought that

[CF-metadata] ensemble dimension

2010-03-12 Thread John Caron
Im not sure if we ever converged on how to write ensemble files. Particularly, how does software recognize the ensemble dimension? I have an example file: netcdf C:/data/CMIP3_Rank_Qensemble_4D.nc { dimensions: model = 2; latitude = 97; longitude = 93; time = 13; variables:

Re: [CF-metadata] CF-convention for three-dimensional lat/long coordinate variables?

2010-03-10 Thread john caron
John Caron, I am mildly curious what the 3-dimensions represent. regards, Karl On 05-Mar-10 12:30 PM, H. Joe Lee wrote: Hi, I have a satellite data that stores lat / lon information in 3-D array and I'm wondering how such data can meet the CF convention. Following the http://*cf

Re: [CF-metadata] CF-convention for three-dimensional lat/long coordinate variables?

2010-03-05 Thread John Caron
what does the 3rd dimension represent ? On 3/5/2010 1:30 PM, H. Joe Lee wrote: Hi, I have a satellite data that stores lat / lon information in 3-D array and I'm wondering how such data can meet the CF convention. Following the

Re: [CF-metadata] Andrew Clegg: udunits 1 or 2 for CF?

2010-03-04 Thread John Caron
Jonathan Gregory wrote: Dear Steve et al. We can distinguish udunits-2 as a standard for units strings, and udunits-2 as software. If we say that CF uses udunits-2 as its reference, programs in Fortran can still use udunits-1 to process the units strings, in nearly all cases, though obviously a

Re: [CF-metadata] Some questions about 360-day calendars

2010-02-13 Thread john caron
Jonathan Blower wrote: 4) Finally on practical note: I seem to remember that someone has implemented the 360-day calendar using the Java library joda-time? Is this code available for re-use? roland schweitzer has extended joda for 360 day calendar. I am planning to use joda time or its JSR

Re: [CF-metadata] standard way to store lookuptables

2010-01-19 Thread John Caron
Hi Andrea: To figure out if you are using the right form, its best to send CDL to this group. To debug your use of the netcdf-java library, its best to send code, error messages and a sample file to netcdf-j...@unidata.ucar.edu. Regards, John andrea antonello wrote: Dear Jonathan, thanks

Re: [CF-metadata] Keyword-centred list of Standard Names

2010-01-19 Thread John Caron
Robert Muetzelfeldt wrote: As part of an exercise looking at the grammatical structure of CF-metadata Standard Names, I have produced a list of all occurrences of all keywords, with the full Standard Name arranged to the left and right of the page-centred keyword. All the remaining words in

Re: [CF-metadata] Keyword-centred list of Standard Names

2010-01-19 Thread John Caron
to the corresponding row in the HTML Standard Name table on the CF Metadata web site - would that be useful? Amongst other benefits, anyone who wanted to cut-and-paste the name could get it from there. yes, thats what i was using it for, so a link would be great. Cheers, Robert John Caron

Re: [CF-metadata] Multiple file datasets

2009-11-23 Thread John Caron
Hi Jonathan, Steve, et al: Question: Do we use cross referencing variables just in the coordinates attribute or are there other places? Comment: Not having the files explicitly named means that the collection of files is defined externally. NcML does this, as apparently does the cdms

Re: [CF-metadata] Swath observational data

2009-11-22 Thread John Caron
tjn98 wrote: Dear All, I think there may be two distinct cases here: 1) Local cross-referencing, where it is only necessary to establish a relationship within a well-defined grouping of files, 2) Referencing to a universal resource, such as a specific file held on a server. For the

Re: [CF-metadata] Swath observational data

2009-11-20 Thread John Caron
Raskin, Rob (388M) wrote: While the Point observational conventions document is undergoing final review, I want to initiate a discussion on a complementary topic - Swath observational conventions. This model addresses satellite observational measurements and potentially airborne measurements.

[CF-metadata] Multiple file datasets (was: Swath observational data)

2009-11-20 Thread John Caron
This topic deserves its own heading, so here it is. Perhaps we should gather current practices and ideas. I think Balaji's gridspec has a proposal about this. Can anyone summarize what SAFE does? Im imagining how this is actually used, eg: float data(y,x); data:coordinates = l...@file1

Re: [CF-metadata] [CF Metadata] #37: Conventions for Point Observation Data

2009-11-20 Thread John Caron
Martina Stockhause wrote: Hi John, right thanks, we could describe several z coordinates. In our case with z dimensions: dimensions: station = 8 ; time = UNLIMITED ; lon = 1; lat = 1; z0 = 1;// e.g. VTP in 110 m z1 = 7;// MINERVA z2 = 1050; // MRR (rain radar) The

Re: [CF-metadata] Multiple file datasets

2009-11-20 Thread John Caron
Stephen Emsley wrote: Can anyone summarize what SAFE does? I will give it a shot as I brought it up in the first place! The Standard Archive Format for Europe (SAFE) was developed as a common format for archiving to ensure long-term preservation of EO data holdings, both historical and

Re: [CF-metadata] Cell bounds associated with coordinate ... (in situ data)

2009-11-19 Thread John Caron
Nan Galbraith wrote: Benno Blumenthal wrote: This is not just a model problem -- current meters once upon a time calculated average speed and instantaneous direction, which messed up calculations of component velocities. Also, thermisters have thermal mass, also introducing a lag with

Re: [CF-metadata] CF point observation Conventions ready for review

2009-11-18 Thread John Caron
Hi Sara: Thanks for adding your example to the mix. This appears to be a timeseries at a single x,y location with all the measurements on single, but different levels (?) Because these are single level, I would be inclined to use a variation of the station representation. One possibility is

Re: [CF-metadata] CF point observation Conventions ready for review

2009-11-16 Thread John Caron
Hi Roy, Nan: Let me try to see where the mapping between the two classifications is currently at: Lowry, Roy K wrote: Dear All, I come from Nan's community with the added complication of exposure to CSML through working with NDG. From this position in BODC we have developed a collection

Re: [CF-metadata] Cell bounds associated with coordinate variable rather than data variable

2009-11-13 Thread John Caron
information on the continuous integral data variables, rather than on the time coordinate. Otherwise we have this proliferation of time coordinates, which confuses things. Steve Hankin wrote: John Caron wrote: 1. The CDM library uses the bounds if they are present. If only the coordinate values

Re: [CF-metadata] CF point observation Conventions ready for review

2009-11-13 Thread John Caron
Nan Galbraith wrote: Hi John - This file has a single variable from a single mooring deployment. A complete mooring deployment file would have 3 (or 4) depth coordinate variables, one each for temperature, velocity, and salinity measurements, since we measure temperature everywhere and add

Re: [CF-metadata] CF point observation Conventions ready for review

2009-11-12 Thread John Caron
Nan Galbraith wrote: Steve Hankin wrote: Its approaching two weeks (Oct 27) since a revised CF point observation Conventions proposal was made: https://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/trac/wiki/PointObservationConventions https://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/trac/ticket/37 Given the complexity of the

Re: [CF-metadata] Cell bounds associated with coordinate variable rather than data variable

2009-11-12 Thread John Caron
1. The CDM library uses the bounds if they are present. If only the coordinate values are present, the CDM generates bounds. These grids bounds are used by ncWMS and other visualization software to draw color filled images. The IDV (I think) uses a contouring algorithm with just the

Re: [CF-metadata] [CF Metadata] #37: Conventions for Point Observation Data

2009-11-11 Thread John Caron
Martina Stockhause wrote: Dear John, dear Heinke, I would support Heinke's idea of generalizing the definition for 'profiles', so that it can be applied to microscale measurements as well. Apart from scintillometer data, data from optical methods like DOAS or FTIR can be delivered as

Re: [CF-metadata] [CF-NetCDF-1.0.swg] Fwd: CF point observationConventions ready for review

2009-11-10 Thread John Caron
Domenico *Sent:* 09 November 2009 15:59 *To:* CF-netCDF SWG *Subject:* [CF-NetCDF-1.0.swg] Fwd: [CF-metadata] CF point observationConventions ready for review Hello, The message below from John Caron points to a revised version of the proposed CF Conventions for point observations. Note

Re: [CF-metadata] Dealing with large numbers of flag values innetcdf cf

2009-10-27 Thread John Caron
martin.juc...@stfc.ac.uk wrote: Thanks for the responses. Seth is right, I was looking for an alternative to having a gigantic flag_meanings attribute. I have tried Seth's approach, but can’t get it past the cf-checker. There appears to be a character set restriction: I can get the first

Re: [CF-metadata] Dealing with large numbers of flag values innetcdf cf

2009-10-27 Thread John Caron
Lowry, Roy K wrote: Hello Martin, There is another possible solution to your problem, which we are looking at for dealing with a data source flag to be used with the GEBCO bathymetric grid. This is to put a URI base into an attribute that when concatenated with a flag values gives the flag

[CF-metadata] CF point observation Conventions ready for review

2009-10-27 Thread John Caron
I have complete a new version of the CF point observation Conventions at: https://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/trac/wiki/PointObservationConventions Discussion is at: https://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/trac/ticket/37 I have incorporated various feedback from the past year, and made a preliminary

Re: [CF-metadata] Dealing with large numbers of flag values in netcdf cf

2009-10-26 Thread John Caron
martin.juc...@stfc.ac.uk wrote: Hello, I wonder if anyone can help with this problem: I have a file with a map of index values, ranging from 1 to 827. The flag meanings range from “Admiralty Islands lowland rain forests” to “Zambezian halophytics”. I’m reluctant to combine all 827 flag

[CF-metadata] geoid_height_above_reference_ellipsoid vs height_above_reference_ellipsoid

2009-10-20 Thread John Caron
||whats the difference between these two standard names: geoid_height_above_reference_ellipsoid javascript:void(0) ||height_above_reference_ellipsoid javascript:void(0) ?? is there a discussion about this somewhere? I just noticed that the mail archives don't seem to be searchable ??

Re: [CF-metadata] CF conventions for storing weather system track data.

2009-10-05 Thread John Caron
to iron out also. John Caron Unidata Karl Taylor wrote: Hi all, Here is an inquiry from Kevin Hodges. I think CF would treat these something like weather balloons. Can anyone help? thanks, Karl p.s. please copy Kevin k...@mail.nerc-essc.ac.uk because I think he's not on our list

Re: [CF-metadata] Conventions vs. Community Profiles

2009-07-21 Thread John Caron
Derrick Snowden wrote: Hello, I am interested in creating a new file format for use in an operational data collection scheme. The file will contain XBT profiles collected under the auspices of the JCOMM Ship Observations Team so will have many international users. I'd like to use CF

Re: [CF-metadata] Scale and offset in coordinate variables

2009-07-20 Thread John Caron
Maarten Plieger wrote: Hi All, I was wondering whether it is allowed to use scale and offset attributes in coordinate variables? Or is this feature only to be used with normal variables? Thanks in advance, Maarten Plieger Netcdf-Java library does recognize scale/offset on coordinate

Re: [CF-metadata] Rotated-pole grids

2009-06-17 Thread John Caron
A few more cents: 1. Its more powerful for the client to know the projection transformation than to know only the 2D lat/lon values. For that reason I always encourage providers to include the projection info. When the client doesnt know what to do with the projection info, having the 2D

Re: [CF-metadata] Storing multiple NWP model runs in a NetCDF - CF file [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-01-09 Thread John Caron
As Steve says, the FMRC Aggregation helps to bridge between a complex 2-time dimension collection, and applications that can only deal with one time dimension. A pretty poster is here: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/caron/presentations/FmrcPoster.pdf Still, we need to decide how to encode

Re: [CF-metadata] Storing multiple NWP model runs in a NetCDF - CFfile [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-01-09 Thread John Caron
Hi Jonathan, Tim, Doug, et al: Jonathan Gregory wrote: Dear Tim So for the case of multiple analysis and forecast times, where all combinations exist, you have two multivalued time dimensions, one for forecast reference time (= base time, analysis time, initialisation time) and one for

Re: [CF-metadata] a different (but perhaps unoriginal) approach to standard name construction

2008-11-03 Thread John Caron
I would propose that we dont replace the current standard_name attribute, but explore alternative representations of their semantics. The goal would be to clarify the relationships of the various semantic components of a standard quantity, and to explore possible grammers for generating the name.

Re: [CF-metadata] a different (but perhaps unoriginal) approach to standard name construction

2008-10-30 Thread John Caron
Hi Karl: I think this is a very important idea thats worth exploring further. An important step would be to try to retrofit the existing set of standard names, and see what issues arise. It would be interesting, in fast, for more than one person to independently try that, making up their own set

[CF-metadata] CF Section 5.3 Reduced Horizontal Grid and Section 8.2 compression by gathering somewhat inconsistent

2008-10-11 Thread John Caron
CF Section 8.2 compression by gathering has this example: dimensions: lat=73; lon=96; landpoint=2381; depth=4; variables: int landpoint(landpoint); landpoint:compress=lat lon; float landsoilt(depth,landpoint); landsoilt:long_name=soil temperature; landsoilt:units=K;

Re: [CF-metadata] CF Section 5.3 Reduced Horizontal Grid and Section 8.2 compression by gathering somewhat inconsistent

2008-10-11 Thread John Caron
One thing i forgot to mention, in the 5.3 example: Example 5.3. Reduced horizontal grid dimensions: londim = 128 ; latdim = 64 ; rgrid = 6144 ; variables: float PS(rgrid) ; PS:long_name = surface pressure ; PS:units = Pa ; PS:coordinates = lon lat ; float

[CF-metadata] ragged arrays vs compression by gathering

2008-10-11 Thread John Caron
I was looking at the reduced horizontal grid feature because its really a way to store ragged arrays rather than the somewhat more general compression by gathering. Its possible that a convention to store ragged arrays might be quite useful in point observation conventions that ive been trying

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