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Hi Hein- On 3/22/12 1:32 AM, Hein Zelle wrote:
Yes, the netCDF-Java Grid API is the obvious place to put this capability. The TDS option would be a nice addition but would be built on top of the netCDF-Java capabilities, so not a replacement for the Grid API.thanks for discussing this in detail. I would like to contribute if I can, although I don't have any experience coding with the NetCDF-Java interface so far. I would be in favour of a generic solution, but I'm wondering if, in this case, it isn't something that should go into IDV itself. The fact that a grid wraps and how to deal with it is something application-domain specific. NetCDF (theoretically) doesn't have to contain earth grids. There are other applications where the functionality would make sense (direction axes), so it could be seen as a generic dimension property (solve in NetCDF) or as something earth-grid specific (solve in IDV). If it's solved in NetCDF, shouldn't it be solved in the base C library as well?
In this case, we are talking about making a change in the netCDF-Java Scientific Data Type (GridDataType) API which is above the low level generic bit reading. Since the GridDataType API knows about the structure and nature of Grids, it should be able to handle this case. For the other cases you cite, the corresponding FeatureTypes could handle these or perhaps it could be bubbled up to the FeatureType layer.
The C library does not (yet) have a Scientific Data Type layer, but when/if it does that would be the place to put similar code.
Ferret (noaa) has a similar problem, and solves it in the application with a "modulo" flag for dimensions and recognition of specific lon dimensions. I'm not sure if they split requests in 2 when requesting a small region, but I can find out if there's an interest.
Don -- Don Murray NOAA/ESRL/PSD and CIRES 303-497-3596 http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/people/don.murray/
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