Following the successful discussion that we had a few year's ago on conventions for storing unstructured grid data in netCDF files which eventually led to the UGRID conventions, I would like to propose a simple convention for documenting staggered data on structured grids that is consistent with the UGRID conventions. My proposal, which I will refer to as SGRID convention, is described below.

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Introduction

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