Add section on Mesh file contents and Ugrid compliance#144
Add section on Mesh file contents and Ugrid compliance#144mo-lucy-gordon merged 5 commits intoMetOffice:mainfrom
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The documentation does not meet the current style guide. Specifically, an 80-character per line limit should be followed. Also, the practice of marking headings with dash lines both above and below is non-standard, though we haven't explicitly forbidden it in our standards. |
Updated, didn't realise there was a style document, thank you |
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There's a few minor suggestions, and please could you update the branch
| Local meshes | ||
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| When partitioning global meshes for a specific domain decomposition, | ||
| additional information is provided in the order to populate the |
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Did you mean "in order to" ?
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| 2. The face centre is calculated as the mean of vector sum of the node | ||
| coordinates, allowing for a radius ratio. | ||
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| 3. The face centre coordinates are convert back to (lon, lat). |
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I think this should say "converted"
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| * For *Planar meshes*, the domains are constructed to be aligned with the | ||
| coordinate axes, whether [lon,lat] or [x,y]. The face centre coordinates | ||
| are obtained as an offset from of 1/2 the face width in the axes |
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Please re-word "from of 1/2" to make it a little clearer
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Reworded and updated
Description
Adds a section on the contents of mesh files produced from the mesh generators. In addition, details of the mesh topology mandatory/optional attributes which meet the UGRID convention requirements as well as metadata supporting applications at the Met Office.
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Closes #64 which adds information on face centres in the mesh output files
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