If we have actually agreed on what CF-1.7 is -- that is, ALL the things that make up CF-1.7 -- then I agree that telling people to put CF-1.7 into the Conventions attribute is Just Fine. But I didn't realize we knew what all the 1.7 things were yet.
Also, if we do know what all the things are that make up CF-1.7, and that's all that's holding up CF-1.7, then the correct thing to do is go old school and just make a plain old CF-1.7 document in the fastest possible way. Don't worry about change markups, don't worry about production, just get it out there. The nice technological approach can then play catch-up, with the advantage of a target document to match.
But I didn't realize CF-1.7 was anywhere close to final form, so putting it in an attribute would be premature if that's true.
John
On Jun 12, 2015, at 09:35, Jonathan Gregory <j.m.gregory at reading.ac.uk> wrote:
> Dear Heiko
>
> We have to agree a new format for the source of the CF document, because the
> existing one appears hard to maintain, and that's one reason why CF 1.7 has
> not been completed. I hope this will be sorted out soon. All agreed tickets
> will be implemented.
>
> In fact, I don't see why we shouldn't decide now on the list of tickets which
> will be included in CF 1.7 and say that people can put CF-1.7 into the
> Conventions attribute now, although the document itself does not exist. What
> do others think?
>
> Best wishes
>
> Jonathan
>
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Heiko Klein <Heiko.Klein at met.no> -----
>
>> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 17:35:15 +0200
>> From: Heiko Klein <Heiko.Klein at met.no>
>> To: "cf-metadata at cgd.ucar.edu" <cf-metadata at cgd.ucar.edu>
>> Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] Roms: ocean_s_coordinate_g1 and g2?
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>> 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 The description on the netcdf-java pages are outdated,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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>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
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