Dear Jonathan,
Thanks for the clarification. I hadn't realised that about the time(time)
coordinate variable having to be monotonic.
I also understand your point about CDMS. I was just trying a file to see if
it would pick up the time dimension described as we were. Obviously all
these things will be coded into CF compliant software in future anyway.
Kind regards,
Ag
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Gregory [mailto:j.m.gregory at reading.ac.uk]
> Sent: 24 July 2003 11:40
> To: cf-metadata at cgd.ucar.edu
> Subject: [CF-metadata] Example of forecast data
>
>
> Dear Ag
>
> I agree that would make sense, but it would not be legal in
> this case because
> time(time), now being a coordinate variable in the Unidata
> sense, has to be
> monotonic, which it would not be. Auxiliary coord vars do not
> have to be
> monotonic. An index coord var obviously can be, or it can
> omitted altogether.
>
> Perhaps this problem is because CDMS does not yet support
> auxiliary coord vars?
>
> Best wishes
>
> Jonathan
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