# A brief textual description of the data format
dataset_description="ROMS MBARI06 dataset format"

# A map of variable names in the dataset to canonical names.
# The canonical names are : time, latitude, longitude, depth, salinity,
#                           temperature, u, v, and w 
#			    (where u,v, and w are ocean current velocity)
variable_map = {
	"time" : "time",
	"lat" : "latitude",
	"lon" : "longitude",
	"depth" : "depth",
	"salt" : "salinity",
	"temp" : "temperature",
	"u" : "u",
	"v" : "v",
	"w" : "w"
}

# Scale factor to convert velocity units into m/s (HOPS uses cm/s, so its scale would
# be 0.01)
# Default: 1.0
velocity_scale=1.0

# A list of zero or more clip planes, for culling out masked portions of the dataset
# Each item is a pair consisting of a point on the plane (as depth,latitude,longitude)
# followed by the plane normal

clip_planes=[( (0, 36.463, 236.92), (0, 0.41011, 0.91204)),
	     ( (0, 35.185, 237.58), (0, 0.94733, -0.32027)),
	     ( (0, 37.503, 236.94), (0, -0.96683, 0.25542))]