[CF-metadata] HDF swatch

From: Jonathan Gregory <j.m.gregory>
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:13:05 +0100

Dear Bob

> auxiliary coordinate variables must have the same size dimensions as their
> corresponding data variables, so there's no way to translate a Swath to
> CF-compliant netCDF without expanding and interpolating the gelocation
> variables to make them match the data dimensions.

I think that's right. We wanted software to be able to locate the data without
having to do any calculation of coordinates. If you want the transformation to
be reversible I suppose you could include some attributes of your own definition
to record which points in the coordinate data to discard when going to HDF.

Best wishes

Jonathan
Received on Fri Jul 30 2004 - 07:13:05 BST