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Re: Coordinate mapping conventions...

>Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1992 09:47:44 -0700 
>From: Joe Sirott <sirott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: netcdfgroup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: Coordinate mapping conventions... 

In the above message, Joe Sirott wrote:

>It seems to me that support for components and data to coordinate mapping 
>can be solved by adding a small extension to the netCDF language. Why not
>add support for something analogous to C structures. For instance, we might
>have the following definition:
>
>       float u(lat,lon,depth);
>       float v(lat,lon,depth);
>       float w(lat,lon,depth);
>       struct velocity { u,v,w };

When performing I/O, would the above structure be dimensioned
[lat,lon,depth,3] or [3,lat,lon,depth]?

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Steve Emmerson   <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


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