CF Reduced Grids
CF Section 8.2 compression by gathering has this example (with my mods to make it more readable):dimensions: lat=73; lon=96; cindex=2381; depth=4;variables: float data(depth, cindex); int...
View ArticleCF Ragged Arrays
Continued from CF Reduced Grids.I was looking at the CF reduced horizontal grid feature because its really a way to store "ragged arrays" rather than the somewhat more general "compression by...
View ArticleCoordinate Mapping Functions
I'm gathering examples of coordinate mapping functions. Given a data variable V, with dimensions {dataDimi} i = 0,n-1 V has a coordinate system, which is a set of coordinate variables = {CVj} j=0,m-1 A...
View ArticleDo blogs about Coordinates need to be monotonous?
Last year we realized that a lot of the GRIB model output from NCEP forecast models were not instantaneous time values, but represented values over a time interval, e.g. averages or accumulations. The...
View ArticleGRIB renaming in 4.3
CDM version 4.3 is a complete overhaul of GRIB handling, including the use of the external tables, which map the codes in the file to the parameter names, units, and everything else that there is to...
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