[CF-metadata] Gaussian Lat/Lon grids

John Caron caron at unidata.ucar.edu
Tue Jun 26 10:10:12 MDT 2007



Jonathan Gregory wrote:
> Dear John
> 
>>> I dont see a standard for encoding gaussian weights for a gaussian 
>>> Latitude grid (eg GRIB GDS type 4 "Gaussian Lat/Lon"). Does this seem 
>>> needed? If so, any suggestions?
> 
> What are the weights? Are they cell areas? If so, they can be put in a
> variable with the same dimension as the data variable, and pointed to by
> the cell_measures attribute of the data variable. If they are some other
> kind of weight, perhaps defining a new cell_measures for them would be
> the right approach.

Hi Jonathan:

Im hoping someone else knows the answer to your questions.


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