Hi Jonathan,
thanks for your reply.
I'm going to check back in the specifications in order to document
myself properly.
Thanks for the hints.
Bets regards,
Andrea
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Jonathan Gregory
<j.m.gregory at reading.ac.uk> wrote:
> Dear Andrea
>
> I think some of your conversation has been off the list, so I'm not sure
> exactly what has been said. Anyway, here are some remarks.
>
>> >? If so these would be easily encoded using netCDF
>> > variables that all depend upon a dimension "numberOfSoilTypes".? Having said
>> > this I'd add that while this is a natural encoding in netCDF there is no
>> > explicit convention for it.
>
> It would be fine in CF to have a data variable e.g. of hydraulic conductivity
> with a dimension for soiltypes. This data variable could have a string-valued
> auxiliary coordinate variable to identify the soil types by name. This idea
> is described in CF 6.1.
>
> In your lat-lon field which gives the geographical
> distribution of soil types, you can use some encoding e.g. as integers,
> and attach flag_values and flag_meanings attributes to give the translation
> of these integers into soil type names. This is in CF 3.5.
>
> There is an example of precipitation timeseries from stations in CF 5.4.
> Again, they could be given names, like in CF 6.1.
>
> Cheers
>
> Jonathan
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