Open chaosphere2112 opened 7 years ago
@chaosphere2112 the unstructured grids will be more and more the default in CMIP6+, so while it will be impossible to anticipate all the new grids that are coming down the pipe paying attention to what ESMF/ESMpy
is doing and ensuring that all their latest functionality works with cdms
would be what I would advocate for
@durack1 Yeah, that's definitely the priority. This is just filed away so I don't have to keep track of the source code on my laptop indefinitely; it would be a "nice to have" for ACME users, since they're using MPAS for the ocean model there.
MPAS files have a
Conventions
attribute with the value'MPAS'
; we could use this to generate a newConvention
object in CDMS that uses the appropriate variables/axes in the file to construct the correct grid for the variables.This is the algorithm I used to construct the generic grids for the data; it creates meshfill-able data. I'll post a link to a file to use as a test, if it's decided that we should support this.