This time you have understood, and I believe my proposal is a lot more useful.
Benno
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Jonathan Gregory
<j.m.gregory at reading.ac.uk> wrote:
> Dear Benno
>
> You mean C is either "real" or "imaginary"? I think the CF-like way to do
> this would be to have two different data variables for it, one for the real
> part, one for the imaginary. That's like having different standard names
> for spatial components, as we do, rather than dimensions for components.
> As for spatial components, where "eastward", "upward", etc. are in the
> standard name, here you would put "real" or "imaginary" in the standard name.
> The standard name would then be not air_pressure but something like
> ?real|imaginary_part_of_fourier_transform_of_air_pressure_wrt_time
> I'd suggest.
>
> I hope I have understood now, but maybe not! Best wishes
>
> Jonathan
>
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International Research Institute for climate and society
The Earth Institute at Columbia University
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