Jonathan Gregory wrote:
> Dear John
>
>
>>One question on situation (b): You make both one-dimensional auxiliary
>>coordinate variables, but could you make one a coordinate and one an
>>auxiliary coordinate? Eg:
>
>
> Coordinate variables have to be monotonic, and this will not generally be
> true in the cases where you have, in effect, a 2D (possibly sparse) set of
> combinations of analysis and validity times. That is the reason for using
> an index axis, with both times as auxiliaries.
Ah yes, good point.
Thanks for your input, i will try to implement and see what other questions come up.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Jonathan
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Received on Wed Sep 06 2006 - 17:24:06 BST
