Jonathan:
Thanks for taking the time to respond to my question.
The GOES-R system will be producing a hemispheric lightning detection product.
It will be an array of lightning detection that occur within some number of seconds across the western hemisphere (i.e. it is not a gridded product).
A lightning detection has a center location, and needs to be associated with an area and an interval of time.
In the vein of maximizing the use of existing CF conventions:
(1) Classify the data variable containing this array of lightning detections as a featureType of ?point?.
(2) Use the cell ?bounds? construct to capture the time interval.
(3) Use the cell ?cell_measures? construct to capture area (i.e. ?:cell_measure = area: lightning_detection_area?).
very respectfully,
randy
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Jonathan Gregory <j.m.gregory at reading.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 10:16:20 +0100
>Dear Randy
>
>> Is it CF compliant to use "cell" constructs for data having a featureType of "point" (i.e. no implied coordinate relationship to other points) ?
>
>I am not sure what you mean by cell constructs. Are you referring to
>cell_methods, perhaps? That would be a good question. I think it should be
>possible to use cell_methods, but it probably ought to refer to the physical
>dimensions of the cell (lat, lon, time, etc.) i.e. the auxiliary coordinates,
>rather than the index space. It should be the cell_methods that you would use
>if you stored the data in the orthogonal multidimensional representation,
>I think.
>
>Is that the right question?
>
>Best wishes
>
>Jonathan
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