[CF-metadata] Timeseries of station data

From: Schmidli Juerg <schmidli>
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 09:50:37 +0200

Dear Jonathan

Would the following use of a scalar coordinate variable
to identify the station dimension as a generic spatial
dimension, and to differentiate it from the non
spatiotemporal dimension max_len_id, be CF-conform?
 
netcdf test {
dimensions:
        station = 11 ;
        pressure = 3;
        time = 2 ;
        max_len_id = 10 ;
variables:
        float station ;
                station:axis = 'X' ;
        short lon(station) ;
                lon:long_name = "station longitude" ;
                lon:units = "degrees_east" ;
        short lat(station) ;
                lat:long_name = "station latitude" ;
                lat:units = "degrees_north" ;
        float pre(time,pressure,station) ;
...
        char station_id(station, max_len_id) ;
...
}

Best wishes

Juerg
Received on Fri Jul 25 2003 - 01:50:37 BST