Re: Coordinate mapping conventions...
Steve Emmerson (
steve@unidata.ucar.edu)
Thu, 22 Oct 92 12:52:03 -0600
>Date: Thu, 22 Oct 92 09:47:44 -0700
>From: Joe Sirott <sirott@atmos.washington.edu>
>To: netcdfgroup@unidata.ucar.edu
>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@unidata.ucar.edu>
