[CF-metadata] question about use of formula_terms with latitude and longitude...

From: Brian Eaton <eaton>
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 09:00:03 -0600

CF places no restriction on the type of coordinate data. In particular
they could be represented in a compressed format as bytes.

On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 08:50:26AM -0600, Ed Hartnett wrote:
> Brian Eaton <eaton at ucar.edu> writes:
>
> > Hi Ed,
> >
> > The formulas that the formula_terms attribute refers to are specified by
> > the standard_name attribute, and are all given in Appendix D. Currently
> > this has only been used for vertical coordinates.
> >
> > Brian
> >
>
> Wonderful, thanks.
>
> Another question: for the vertical coordinates specified in Appendix
> D, can we say that they are all usually NC_FLOAT? NC_DOUBLE?
>
> Or we can't say at all?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ed
>
>
> --
> Ed Hartnett -- ed at unidata.ucar.edu
Received on Wed Oct 04 2006 - 09:00:03 BST