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The (stagger) location within the mesh at which the data is defined. Only node, edge and face are supported. Data defined at nodes or edges will be handled as points in FEWS. Data defined at faces will be handled as polygons in FEWS. If the mesh in the netcdf file does not contain valid face bound coordinate variables, then data defined at faces will be handled as points in FEWS.
locationIndexSetVariableName
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