Minor note: The "official" GMT documentation for this is at:
http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/gmt/html/GMT_Docs.html#x1-224000K.3
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Russ Rew <russ at unidata.ucar.edu> wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to store outline information in NetCDF/CF? =
>>
>>
>> I am looking for a way to store e.g. glacier outline, sea ice edge/extent e=
>> tc =
>>
>> in NetCDF. It would simplify data management within heterogeneous systems. =
>>
>> Data can then be dumped to Shapefiles, KML etc upon user request, but for l=
>> ong =
>>
>> term data management purposes they may be stored in NetCDF/CF along with =
>>
>> gridded data, time series, trajectories etc.
>
> There are no CF conventions for storing such outline information, but
> the widely used GMT (Generic Mapping Tools) software uses netCDF with
> GMT-specific conventions for storing coastal outlines, as line segments
> in tiles. ?For a high-level description see the section "K.3 The long
> and winding road" from the GMT Technical Reference and Cookbook by Paul
> Wessel and Walter H. F. Smith:
>
> ?http://tabs2.gerg.tamu.edu/gmt/GMT_Docs/node222.html
>
> --Russ
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