On the storage of arbitrarily aggregated data arrays (v0.2)

Abstract

This document describes a framework for storing arbitrarily aggregated data arrays within memory and proposes a convention for efficiently storing them in a file.

Contents

• 1. Introduction
• 2. A conceptual framework for the in-memory storage of aggregated arrays
  • 2.1. Accounting for arbitrary sub-array properties
  • 2.2. Parameters required for specifying an aggregated data array
• 3. The NCA convention
  • 3.1. Storing the aggregated data array parameters in a string
  • 3.2. Creating a netCDF variable for the aggregated data array
• 4. A complete description of netCDF NCA attributes describing the aggregated data
  • 4.1. cf_role
  • 4.2. nca_dimensions
  • 4.3. nca_array

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
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