Hi Kieran,
I am please to say that we can allocate resources to the issue of the
representations of meshes/irregular grids in NetCDF. As a first stage
we would like to evaluate approaches that have been developed thus far
(I assume there *must* be some out there) and then plan next steps. Do
you (or other members of this list) have a list of developments in this
area?
Yes, here are several developments that may be helpful:
1. The work presented and discussed at the "Community Standards for
Unstructured Grids Workshop" in October, 2006, especially work of
Tom Gross, Rich Signell, and V. Balaji:
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/events/2006GridWorkshop/agenda.html
2. Subsequent brief discussion on the CF Conventions Wiki:
http://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/trac/ticket/6
http://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/trac/ticket/7
3. V. Balaji's "Gridspec: A standard for the description of grids used
in Earth System models":
http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/~vb/gridstd/gridstd.html
--Russ
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