GENIE Gridspec Diagrams UnstructuredCell

Unstructured cells provide detailed structural information about cells. Unstructured cells are particularly useful for high-resolution grid tiles that must cover detailed topography -- for instance numerically generated "unstructured triangular" discretisations. Vertices are specified using an appropriate point type; currently only a geo-referenced type is available consisting of geographic longitude and latitude coordinates.

Since vertices are likely to be shared between cells, it may be more appropriate to associate vertices with a tile instead of a cell, and reference the vertices from cells instead (a similar thing is done for edges). This will avoid storing duplicate vertex data.

Note: the gridspec overview contains introductory and background information on the gridspec; more detailed information can be found in Balaji's gridspec document on the Earth System Curator website.