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[CF-metadata] Roms: ocean_s_coordinate_g1 and g2?

From: Heiko Klein <Heiko.Klein>
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 08:50:09 +0200

Thanks Rich,

good to know that there are just some procedural issues while converting
to git, and that it will be part of CF-1.7.

Heiko

On 2015-06-11 20:02, Signell, Richard wrote:
> Heiko,
> Back in January the pull request to add these two coordinates was
> merged into the CF 1.7 document xml files:
> https://github.com/cf-convention/cf-convention.github.io/pull/33
>
> But those changes didn't show up in the CF 1.7 web page:
> http://cfconventions.org/Data/cf-conventions/cf-conventions-1.7/build/cf-conventions.html
> which still says: "Version 1.7.2 DRAFT, 28 March, 2014"
>
> The problem I think is that there is no automated process to create
> the html pages once the Pull Requests have been accepted. I guess
> this has traditionally been done manually, folllowing the procedure
> described here:
> https://github.com/cf-convention/cf-convention.github.io/wiki/How-to-build-the-document-from-the-Docbook-sources
>
> It would be great if we automated this process using Travis-CI.
>
> -Rich
>
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 11:35 AM, Heiko Klein <Heiko.Klein at met.no> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> three years ago, Rich submitted the addition for a new
>> ocean_s_coordinates_g* to the ticket system:
>> http://cf-trac.llnl.gov/trac/ticket/93 The ticket was approved by 3 authors
>> and accepted in 2012.
>>
>> When will this ticket be available in the CF document? What needs to be
>> done? (And why does the ticket have 'low' priority?)
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Heiko
>>
>>
>> On 2012-07-18 07:52, 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 The description on the netcdf-java pages are outdated,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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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Heiko Klein Norwegian Meteorological Institute
>> Tel. + 47 22 96 32 58 P.O. Box 43 Blindern
>> http://www.met.no 0313 Oslo NORWAY
>
>
>

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Dr. Heiko Klein                   Norwegian Meteorological Institute
Tel. + 47 22 96 32 58             P.O. Box 43 Blindern
http://www.met.no                 0313 Oslo NORWAY
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