[CF-metadata] point observation data in CF 1.4

From: Jonathan Gregory <j.m.gregory>
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:49:04 +0100

Dear Rich

> With the approach you suggest, if you wanted to obtain all the
> particle positions at a particular time step, would you need to read
> all tindex for all particles? (I'm a little fuzzy on what the CDL
> would look like...)

No, I don't think so. Either of John's proposed packing mechanisms would
allow you to get just the tindex (and x y z) that applied to a particular
particle without reading the others.

Cheers

Jonathan
Received on Wed Oct 13 2010 - 06:49:04 BST