Hi.
I think this is perfect!
Jim
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On Feb 28, 2014, at 1:28 PM, Jonathan Gregory <j.m.gregory at reading.ac.uk> wrote:
> Dear John
>
>> "Missing data are permitted in an auxiliary coordinate variable only at points where all the referencing variables also have missing data." Trying to fix some nits and make it a bit more parseable.
>
> I think that is OK. In case it is not clear what "referencing variables" means
> it could be "all the data variables which refer to it".
>
> However, now I look again at ticket 85, which has been agreed already, and Rich
> drew our attention to it, I wonder whether we can't just go with that.
>
> "Missing data is allowed in data variables and auxiliary coordinate
> variables. 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. Missing data is not
> allowed in coordinate variables."
>
> I guess we must have been through a similar discussion before. The above is
> more permissive than the words you suggest. It says it's allowed to have
> missing data in aux coord vars, but if you do that at any points where the
> data variable is non-missing, the data values there should be ignored i.e.
> treated as if they were missing.
>
> Is that all right?
>
> Best wishes
>
> Jonathan
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