Hei Rich,
I found that convention before, this was what I mentioned to Jonathan.
But first of all, this is not convention, yet, and secondly I have no stations but a varying set of observations per timestep (neither stations nor trajectories). I now write the data with redundant time as a limited dimension, and records(time, latitude, longitude) and have
mass (record), radius(record) etc.
Thanks anyway,
Ute
Ute Br?nner
www.sintef.com/marine_environment
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-----Original Message-----
From: rsignell at gmail.com [mailto:rsignell at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Rich Signell
Sent: Freitag, 8. Oktober 2010 13:59
To: Ute Br?nner
Cc: Jonathan Gregory; cf-metadata at cgd.ucar.edu; John Caron
Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] point observation data in CF 1.4
Ute,
On this page:
https://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/trac/wiki/PointObservationConventions
It appears that your case *might* be handled by:
9.3.2 Ragged array (contiguous) representation
I'm pretty sure that this "ragged_row_count" feature *is* included in
NetCDF-Java, but John Caron (cc'd here) could confirm.
Please report back to this group if you find success (or perhaps even
if you don't!)
Thanks,
-Rich
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 3:15 AM, Ute Br?nner <Ute.Broenner at sintef.no> wrote:
> Jonathan,
> thanks for your answer! My troubles were related to shape and dimensions.
> I now finally find out that the new approaches of Netcdf 4 are not implemented in the Java API, yet.
> I now use a record dimension which is unlimited and a limited time dimension. Hope that works, otherwise, I have your address now :-)
>
> Best regards,
> Ute
>
> Ute Br?nner
> www.sintef.com/marine_environment
>
> ? ?Consider the environment before printing
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Gregory [mailto:jonathan at met.reading.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Jonathan Gregory
> Sent: Mittwoch, 6. Oktober 2010 19:13
> To: Ute Br?nner
> Cc: cf-metadata at cgd.ucar.edu
> Subject: [CF-metadata] point observation data in CF 1.4
>
> Dear Ute
>
> You are right, the convention for timeseries of different lengths being
> contained in one variable is not yet agreed. Some months ago John Caron, Steve
> Hankin and I discussed it at length but did not quite manage to finish it,
> unfortunately. So there isn't a CF convention for it at the moment.
>
>> but I have some trouble in writing the data.
> What kind of trouble?
>
> Best wishes
>
> Jonathan
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