Re: [cf-pointobsconvention] Should Z Coordinates be required?

To: John Caron <caron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [cf-pointobsconvention] Should Z Coordinates be required?
From: John Graybeal <graybeal@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:52:12 -0700

Yes, I think this is a task that needs to be done. These two lists don'tinclude a third necessary evil, the vertical datum (groan).


John

At 3:40 PM -0600 9/26/07, John Caron wrote:

It occurs to me that we could document the possible vertical coordinates,ie set up a controlled vocabulary. The WMO has already done so in the GRIB2 format:
 http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/docs/grib2/grib2_table3-15.shtml
 http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/docs/grib2/grib2_table4-5.shtml

or we could refer to these if deemed complete enough.

This could be an appendix that might would be useful to storing any type of 
data in CF.

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