[CF-metadata] polar stereographic projections

From: Magnus Hagdorn <Magnus.Hagdorn>
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 10:15:10 +0100

On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 08:13, Jonathan Gregory wrote:
> Dear Magi
>
> The proj pages have some remarks about polar stereographic projections so it's
> a pity they're inaccessible!
>
> > I am just looking at the specs of the polar stereographic projection and
> > am wondering how I can select the South Pole since I can only select a
> > scale and the direction of the polar map.
>
> I am not familiar with how it is calculated, but I think you must be right.
> Perhaps we should have latitude_of_projection_origin in this projection, as
> well as the vertical longitude and the scale factor.
>
It also seems like that the polar stereographic projection is a special
case of the stereographic projection so this entry would be redundant?
magnus

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