On 4/2/2012 4:52 AM, Jim Biard wrote:
> I like Jonathan's suggestion.
Fine w/ me.
- Steve
>
> On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Jonathan Gregory
> <j.m.gregory at reading.ac.uk <mailto:j.m.gregory at reading.ac.uk>> wrote:
>
> Dear all
>
> John Caron proposed
>
> > "Applications should treat the data as missing where the
> auxiliary coordinates are missing"
>
> and Steve proposed (an hour later, I think)
>
> "Application writers should be aware that under some (rare)
> circumstances data auxiliary coordinate values may be missing, while
> other parameters at the corresponding indices remain valid. While
> special purpose applications may be able to glean useful information
> at these indices, most applications will want to regard data as
> missing where the auxiliary coordinates are missing "
>
> I could agree to either of these. I prefer John's, because it is
> simpler, but
> it's more severe than Steve's. A compromise might be possible, e.g.
>
> Generic applications should treat the data as missing where any
> auxiliary
> coordinate variables have missing values; special-purpose
> applications might
> be able to make use of the data.
>
> Any good?
>
> Cheers
>
> Jonathan
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