[CF-metadata] new standard names -> cell metrics

From: Jonathan Gregory <j.m.gregory>
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 09:30:58 +0000

Dear Simon and Christiane

> > >area_of_gridbox
> >We agreed on 'cell_area' in previous discussions.
> >
> >It seems to me that it is useful to define variables such as
> > >latitude_of_the_bounds
> > >longitude_of_the_bounds
> >just because people use them.
>
> And specification of cell bounds is explicitly covered by the cell
> boundaries mechanism of CF-1.0 (7.1). Again why would a CF compliant
> dataset not use this mechanism?

I agree with Simon. I thought it was OK to add a standard_name for cell_area,
which could be used on the variable supplying cell area, but I still think
that cell_measures should be used to point to that variable in any situation
where it might be useful for computation.

Cheers

Jonathan
Received on Sun Dec 17 2006 - 02:30:58 GMT