Ben (All),
David & Gerry are hitting the issue we're up against with the coastal
modelers involved in the SCOOP program at SURA. As you know, this is
the relevant initiative that relates to CF: http://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/
trac/wiki/BoulderWorkshop. And you probably also know that David &
Gerry are part of the team that includes several folks on the
attendee list for that workshop. A few others are gaining interest.
Tom Gross had an important leadership role in the CF effort in the
past when he was at NOAA, but he's now at UNESCO. It may not be
possible to get him back, but it still seems that there could be
critical mass for a focused effort.
Thoughts?
Philip
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On Nov 2, 2007, at 4:29 PM, David R. Forrest wrote:
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Ben Domenico wrote:
Hi Gerry,
As you are no doubt aware, that issue has to be addressed on
multiple fronts.
-- The ISO 19123 definitions are general enough to support such
datasets as coverages.
-- The WCS specifications have been more restrictive to the point
where the grids must be regular in some (perhaps) projected
coordinate
system.
-- The CF conventions community has, to this point, focused on the
regular (or at least quasi regular) grids that are the output of
numerical forecast models.
...
irregular grids still needs some work. If we can complete the
process
for the case of "station observations," I believe the others will
follow more quickly by benefit of the hard lessons we are learning
from the first two.
One question I have for you and the other members of the coastal
community is whether those unstructured/irregular grids are an
example
of one of the current CDM scientific data types
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/THREDDS/CDM/CDM-TDS.htm
or whether a new CDM data type is needed.
From that document, the Station (or perhaps Swath?) type seems
like the
closest CDM Scientific Data Type to the elements in an unstructured
grid model. However there does not seem to be a clear method to
limit the
domain of applicability of a Station's data to some non-simple spatial
region associated with a CDM Station. Unstructured mesh modelers use
nodes and a connectivity matrix to represent the regions over which
their
data applies, and are writing these in netCDF outside of the
conventions.
Maybe a 'Cell' or 'Element' data type using nodes/vertices and some
sort
of connectivity would be a valuable extention.
Dave
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