Ive updated the docs at
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/reference/StandardCoordinateTransforms.html
Thanks for the report.
On 7/17/2012 11:52 PM, Heiko Klein wrote:
> Rich,
>
> it must have been the netcdf-java package where I have seen these
> standard-names. The description on the netcdf-java pages are outdated,
> still using formula_terms a and b. I just checked the code, and that
> is up to date working with the formula_term -array C(k).
>
> It'll be good to have an official version. Thanks for picking this up
> again.
>
> Heiko
>
>
> On 2012-07-17 17:13, Rich Signell wrote:
>> Heiko,
>>
>> We worked with John Caron several years ago to get these into the CDM
>> in the NetCDF-Java library, so if you have g1 or g2 coordinates they
>> will work with codes that use NetCDF-java (like the Matlab NCTOOLBOX
>> and Unidata's IDV), and I remember we drafted up some documentation
>> to submit to CF, but looks like we dropped the ball. I'll pick it
>> up again.
>>
>> -Rich
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Heiko Klein <Heiko.Klein at met.no>
>> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm currently working with ROMS ocean model files. The model uses a
>>> generalized ocean_s coordinate as defined by
>>> https://www.myroms.org/wiki/index.php/Vertical_S-coordinate .
>>>
>>> The same page says that their s_coordinate is covered by standard_names
>>> ocean_s_coordinate_g1
>>> ocean_s_coordinate_g2
>>> and I believe I have seen at least the g1 case in a draft of a CF
>>> convention
>>> some month ago. Both cases are also implemented in the netcdf-java
>>> package
>>> with above standard_names:
>>> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/reference/StandardCoordinateTransforms.html
>>>
>>>
>>> But I cannot find any of those names any longer, neither in CF-1.6
>>> nor in
>>> the standard_names tables.
>>>
>>> Does somebody remember what happened to these vertical coordinates?
>>> According to the ROMS Wiki, the standard_names have been added in March
>>> 2009.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Heiko
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>>
>>
>>
>
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