Russ writes:
> One way to do this is to pack floating-point numbers into ncbyte or ncshort
> values and use the conventional netCDF attributes `scale_factor' and
> `add_offset' to store the packing parameters, as described in the User's
> Guide:
Thank you. That seems to be the correct way to do it in a standard manner,
when the mapping is a linear equation. My brain must have been off when I
was reading that part of the manual. Of course, the missing value can be
compared before the scaling.
It doesn't directly address the problem of NEXRAD-type data where it comes in
with the table information built in. However, I think that case will be
unusual enough so that having an ad-hoc indirection to a table won't cause
that much of a problem. Internally I'm going to use a table in any event,
because it's fast.
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