Roy Lowry wrote:
> Besides my expected general concern of increasing the overlap of the CF
> standard names into the domain of observational oceanography further
> increasing future interoperability problems (requiring more
> mapping/ontology
> building work), ...
I don't see this as a problem. For those of us using CF, we need a complete
vocabulary. We can map it to other vocabs, but it needs to work as a
stand-alone
vocabulary anyway. Interspersing BODC and CF names is just not practical,
and does not efficiently use the strength of NetCDF.
> platform_heading needs clarification. If the platform is a ship,
> heading can
> either be interpreted as the direction towards which the bow is
> pointing or the
> direction towards which the ship is travelling (very different if
> going backwards!).
In every case I've encountered, heading means "pointing towards" and COG,
or course, means "moving towards."
> The optics parameters do not include any information on the light
> wavelength to which they pertain.
Would this be addressed with an attribute?
Cheers -
Nan
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*Nan Galbraith Upper Ocean Processes Group *
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Received on Tue Jul 26 2005 - 10:52:15 BST
