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John,
>Date: Wed, 09 Jul 1997 09:56:12 -0600
>From: John Caron <caron@xxxxxxxx>
>To: Russ Rew <russ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: Coordinate Systems Proposals
In the above message, you wrote:
> In other words, in general we can't associate the coordinate functions
> with a dimension, but only with the variables. The dimensions are merely
> the domains of the coordinate functions; it is the values of the
> coordinate functions that are the coordinates, not the dimensional
> indices, thus the warning not to "confuse the role of data dimensions
> and coordinates". For (1d) coordinate variables, the "confusion" is ok,
> even helpful, but it doesnt generalize.
You might find the following paper on the "field" data-model helpful:
Haber, R., B. Lucas and N. Collins. "A Data Model for Scientific
Visualization with Provisions for Regular and Irregular Grids",
Proceedings IEEE Visualization '91, pp. 298-305, October 1991.
I'm investigating the feasibility of emulating this data model in
a netCDF context.
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Steve Emmerson <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>
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