XML configuration files

Don Murray dmurray at unidata.ucar.edu
Wed May 31 16:51:45 MDT 2006


Hi Harry-

Harry wrote:
> Thanks Don and Tom. To be a bit more specific about my problem if we used
> the data from NCEP GFS 80KM CONUS. I want to limit the possible options
> available under Fields to geopotential at isobaric levels(IL), 
> temperture at
> IL, temperture at fixed heights, and a couple of other thing like humidity
> if the data allows for it. However I can't just remove the extra data from
> the set because I may need to show options for derived quantities like wind
> speed while not showing options like u component or v component at a fixed
> height above ground..

Even going the NcML option, it would still show the parameters
needed for the derived quantities (e.g., u and v) in the list.
Since parameter names can change from dataset to dataset, there's
no global way to do this effectively.

Sorry.

Don
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