I added Ticket 62 to my to-do list for CF 1.6. This is a bit unusual
in that the ticket has no moderator. So if there are no objections,
I'll close the ticket and implement the wording which Jonathan proposed
on the Trac system on 12/23/10.
I was wrong when I said there were examples without the required
coordinates attribute - I hadn't looked at them carefully enough.
- Jeff
On 7/26/11 2:13 AM, Jonathan Gregory wrote:
> Dear Chris, Jeff, Steve, John
>
>>>> It seems to me that z in the examples of Appendix H (formerly
>>>> designated A9) plays the role of an auxiliary coordinate variable,
>>>> although technically it's not because there isn't (but should be) a
>>>> 'coordinates' attribute which lists auxiliary coordinate variables.
>>>> I don't know why axes are banned for auxiliary coordinate variables in
>>>> the case of trajectories. Something needs to be clarified here, or
>>>> the examples changed.
>>>>
>>>> This was ticket 37. Are there any comments from Steve Hankin, the
>>>> moderator, or any of the other people who contributed to writing
>>>> Chapter 9, or anyone else who knows more than me?
>> stand by. I think Chris has pointed out a needed correction to Chapter
>> 5 that was discussed, but was not documented. (thanks Chris) But need
>> to confirm with others.
> Ticket 62 discusses the proposed change to allow auxiliary coordinate
> variables to have the axis attribute. This ticket was originally proposed by
> Karl to correct a defect, and I think when we were writing chapter 9 we had
> in mind this change. I propose that ticket 62 should be implemented in CF 1.6
> (it wasn't one of the tickets I had listed earlier to Jeff - I must have
> overlooked it). In that ticket, I proposed some wording, to which no-one
> subsequently objected, and that was many months ago.
>
> Also, Jeff, if there are any examples in App H where a data variables does
> not list its aux coord vars in a coordinates attribute, please could you
> correct them? This is required, as you say. It says in 9.5, "The coordinates
> attribute must be attached to every data variable to indicate the
> spatiotemporal coordinate variables that are needed to geo-locate the data."
>
> Best wishes and thanks
>
> Jonathan
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