You nailed it, Mike. H.5 is the intended illustration where "A9.2.3.2"
is referenced. Thanks for pointing out the error.
- Steve
On 5/28/2013 9:35 PM, Mike McCann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm working on understanding how to properly express nominal and
> precise locations for timeSeriesProfile data from an oceanographic
> mooring. Here is the text from section 9.5 at
> http://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/documents/cf-conventions/1.6/cf-conventions.html#coordinates-metadata:
>
> CF Discrete Geometries provides a mechanism to encode both the
> nominal and the precise positions, while retaining the semantics
> of the idealized feature type. Only the set of coordinates which
> are regarded as the nominal (default or preferred) positions
> should be indicated by the attribute axis, which should be
> assigned string values to indicate the orientations of the axes
> (X, Y, Z, or T). See example A9.2.3.2. Auxiliary coordinate
> variables containing the nominal and the precise positions should
> be listed in the relevant coordinates attributes of data
> variables. In orthogonal representations the nominal positions
> could be coordinate variables, which do not need to be listed in
> the coordinates attribute, rather than auxiliary coordinate variables.
>
>
> I can't find example "A9.2.3.2", but did find example H.5 which looks
> to be the correct one. Is this just a simple typo in the above text?
>
> -Mike
>
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