Re: Gribtonc changes

On Tue, 27 May 2003, ahoward wrote:

> On Tue, 27 May 2003, Robb Kambic wrote:
>
> <snip>
> > When netCDF GIS applications become available, the new NetCDF files
> > will already have the needed information for correct display. We are also
> > considering temporal variables so time bounding boxes can be created for the
> > datasets.
> >
> > This is a brief summary of the kind of modifications we are making to
> > the decoders package.  If you have other ideas about what should be
> > included or omitted, please send in your comments.
>
> robb-
>
> by, 'temporal bounding boxes' are you suggesting valid time only, or valid
> time *and* transactional time (bi-temporal) bounding boxes/variables?
>

Ara,

Actually we were thinking of boxes starting at the reference time to some
valid time.  So if the valid times were every 3 hours, one could get boxes

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Robb...




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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
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