Fwd: [CF-metadata] projections

John Caron caron at unidata.ucar.edu
Thu Nov 21 16:20:09 MST 2002


Bob Drach wrote:

>>
>>is there already a meaning of "axis" in CF that this would interfere with?
>>
> 
> Yes - it indicates the spatial or temporal type of a coordinate variable, e.g., 'T'
> for a time axis.



thats actually pretty much my intent. in this case "X" and "Y" would indicate 
the x and y coordinates respectivelely for the projection function P(x,y) -> 
(lat, lon).











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