cfdm.core.AuxiliaryCoordinate

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class cfdm.core.AuxiliaryCoordinate(properties=None, data=None, bounds=None, geometry=None, interior_ring=None, source=None, copy=True, _use_data=True)

Bases: cfdm.core.abstract.coordinate.Coordinate

An auxiliary coordinate construct of the CF data model.

An auxiliary coordinate construct provides information which locate the cells of the domain and which depend on a subset of the domain axis constructs. Auxiliary coordinate constructs have to be used, instead of dimension coordinate constructs, when a single domain axis requires more then one set of coordinate values, when coordinate values are not numeric, strictly monotonic, or contain missing values, or when they vary along more than one domain axis construct simultaneously. CF-netCDF auxiliary coordinate variables and non-numeric scalar coordinate variables correspond to auxiliary coordinate constructs.

The auxiliary coordinate construct consists of a data array of the coordinate values which spans a subset of the domain axis constructs, an optional array of cell bounds recording the extents of each cell (stored in a Bounds object), and properties to describe the coordinates. An array of cell bounds spans the same domain axes as its coordinate array, with the addition of an extra dimension whose size is that of the number of vertices of each cell. This extra dimension does not correspond to a domain axis construct since it does not relate to an independent axis of the domain. Note that, for climatological time axes, the bounds are interpreted in a special way indicated by the cell method constructs.

New in version (cfdm): 1.7.0

Initialisation

Parameters

properties: dict, optional

Set descriptive properties. The dictionary keys are property names, with corresponding values. Ignored if the source parameter is set.

Properties may also be set after initialisation with the set_properties and set_property methods.

Parameter example:

properties={'standard_name': 'longitude'}

data: data_like, optional

Set the data. Ignored if the source parameter is set.

A data_like object is any object that can be converted to a Data object, i.e. numpy array_like objects, Data objects, and cfdm.core instances that contain Data objects.

The data also may be set after initialisation with the set_data method.

bounds: Bounds, optional

Set the bounds array. Ignored if the source parameter is set.

The bounds array may also be set after initialisation with the set_bounds method.

geometry: str, optional

Set the geometry type. Ignored if the source parameter is set.

The geometry type may also be set after initialisation with the set_geometry method.

Parameter example:

geometry='polygon'

interior_ring: InteriorRing, optional

Set the interior ring variable. Ignored if the source parameter is set.

The interior ring variable may also be set after initialisation with the set_interior_ring method.

source: optional

Initialise the properties, geometry type, data, bounds and interior ring from those of source.

Note that if source is a AuxiliaryCoordinate instance then cfdm.core.AuxiliaryCoordinate(source=source) is equivalent to source.copy().

copy: bool, optional

If False then do not deep copy input parameters prior to initialisation. By default arguments are deep copied.

Inspection

Attributes

construct_type

Return a description of the construct type.

Properties

Methods

del_property	Remove a property.
get_property	Return a property.
has_property	Whether a property has been set.
set_property	Set a property.
properties	Return all properties.
clear_properties	Remove all properties.
set_properties	Set properties.

Data

Methods

del_data	Remove the data.
get_data	Return the data.
has_data	Whether or not the construct has data.
set_data	Set the data.

Attributes

data	Return the data.

Bounds

Methods

del_bounds	Remove the bounds.
get_bounds	Return the bounds.
has_bounds	Whether or not there are bounds.
set_bounds	Set the bounds.

Attributes

bounds

Return the bounds.

Geometries

Methods

del_geometry	Remove the geometry type.
get_geometry	Return the geometry type.
has_geometry	True if there is a geometry type.
set_geometry	Set the geometry type.
del_interior_ring	Remove the geometry type.
get_interior_ring	Return the interior ring variable for polygon geometries.
has_interior_ring	Whether or not there is an interior ring variable.
set_interior_ring	Set the interior_ring.

Attributes

interior_ring

Return the interior ring variable for polygon geometries.

Climatology

Methods

del_climatology	Remove the climatology setting.
get_climatology	Return the climatology setting.
is_climatology	True if the coordinates are climatological.
set_climatology	Set whether or not coordinates are climatological.

Miscellaneous

Methods

copy	Return a deep copy.

Special

Methods

__deepcopy__

Called by the copy.deepcopy function.

Docstring substitutions

Methods

_docstring_special_substitutions	Return the special docstring substitutions.
_docstring_substitutions	Returns the substitutions that apply to methods of the class.
_docstring_package_depth	Returns the class {{package}} substitutions package depth.
_docstring_method_exclusions	Returns method names excluded in the class substitutions.