[CF-metadata] Timeseries of station data

From: Schmidli Juerg <schmidli>
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 13:23:44 +0200

Dear Jonathan

> * I don't think station should have an axis attribute X (or Y), because it
> doesn't have the sense of lon (or lat). In fact, it has the sense of lon or
> lat combined so can't be regarded an X- or a Y-axis.

I agree, but consider the following example:

dimensions:
        station = 11 ;
        time = 2 ;
        max_len_id = 10 ;
        vec_dim = 4 ;

        float a_vector(station, vec_dim) ;
        char station_id(station, max_len_id) ;
...

How can the application determine that (station) is a spatiotemporal dimension,
but (max_len_id) and (vec_dim) are non-spatiotemporal dimensions?

If not axis='X', would it be better to define a new value for the
axis attribute, say axis='S' (for spatiotemporal)?

Best wishes

Juerg
Received on Fri Jul 25 2003 - 05:23:44 BST