yes, sorry to have forgotten about the ticket 85 conclusion. It works for me also, is preferable to be inclusive I think.
john
On Feb 28, 2014, at 10:53, Jim Biard <jbiard at cicsnc.org> wrote:
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> On Feb 28, 2014, at 1:28 PM, Jonathan Gregory <j.m.gregory at reading.ac.uk> wrote:
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>> 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
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