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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/06/11 15:30, Horne, Randy (Contractor) wrote: > Dear Sir: Dear Randy, > I am working a program where valid gridded data is restricted to the > portions of the earth that are (1) land or sea, (2) day or night, and > (3) clear or cloudy. > > Substantial efficiencies are gained by storing only tiles with valid > data. For example storing land surface temperature in tiles that > only are on land. I am no expert on the matter, but I would store each set of tiles in a different band, each having independent lon/lats. Otherwise, I am pretty sure that netcdf4/hdf5 does a good job at compressing the data if large areas of it are NaNs for example, so maybe it's worth trying ? > In addition, there is substantial benefit in being able to read only > those tiles from a hemispheric netCDF4 file that are requested by the > user. For example, the user may only be interested in land surface > temperature over Argentina in a product that has land surface > temperature for the entire western hemisphere. That is a matter of programming I think: the program must be able to explore and return the interesting data. > A few questions: > > (1) Does one or more existing set of netCDF4 conventions exist to > provide these capabilities ? > (2) If there is not an existing set of conventions, is anyone working > on the conventions required to support these capabilities ? The conventions are merely a naming scheme, nothing more. You can do whatever you want with them, but the capabilities you are are requesting are more programmatic... Best regards, Martin -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Red Hat - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJN7cJ6AAoJEBdvyODiyJI4RQAH/0DXQftJMw389fTcLpEWU6Fr SNAMuMWX0UBd0DFsbfDmMETwX5u9Gsl8Cdg6slxDynaigKoB3Qrn5+JhKlFdPf2L ANBp8WGQ95YFn0epG+Fj4M2SXRyhcGNf0pt1/m1ZgedWrfI/iuKRxdvIKY6EcYSs mrnQ2Gdy81rW8TuCyLRvTPFV+cJYJqaFwA48EwrdN3lOsBNmw7WCTODKj3tkoFJd anQsYREL1ggotfLcCAHb75Si6ddO3MMeI7j19NlJdvkDLnzSnxp3y0gxNduAK60Z PCJTlPq4pYS+YAiFjelZ4SD7dTSqx5V2THuLVTKTp1oBJCLTF3gR5f50LmwTYfw= =hyZ0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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