Hi.
I agree with Charlie and Jessica that _FillValue is the better approach.
According to the NUG, "The fill value is returned when reading values
that were never written." This contrasts slightly with the missing_value
definition which is (per NUG) "The missing_value attribute can be a
scalar or vector containing values indicating missing data."
Missing_value has more of the sense of "Our acquisition system couldn't
get a value for this measurement at this time/place."
In the case at hand, there never were values to potentially have. The
difference between not existing and potentially existing but unavailable.
Grace and peace,
Jim
On 12/20/17 6:49 PM, Hausman, Jessica (398G) wrote:
>
> Matlab, Panoploy and other software know what to do with _/FillValue,
> I don?t know if the same can be said about missing/_value
>
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> *From: *CF-metadata <cf-metadata-bounces at cgd.ucar.edu> on behalf of
> Charlie Zender <zender at uci.edu>
> *Organization: *University of California, Irvine
> *Date: *Wednesday, December 20, 2017 at 2:35 PM
> *To: *"cf-metadata at cgd.ucar.edu" <cf-metadata at cgd.ucar.edu>
> *Cc: *Karl Taylor <taylor13 at llnl.gov>
> *Subject: *Re: [CF-metadata] grid cells with a varying number of cell
> bounds
>
> I prefer _FillValue to missing_value.
>
> On 12/20/17 14:22, cf-metadata-request at cgd.ucar.edu
> <mailto:cf-metadata-request at cgd.ucar.edu> wrote:
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> > My sense is that no one violently opposes the use of missing_value to
>
> > fill unused vertices for grid cells with fewer than the maximum number
>
> > of vertices.
>
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