Basic concepts/terminology document #217
Description
We should probably put together a developer- and user-facing document covering basic concepts and vocabulary, as we have a liberal mix of language drawn from MF6, xarray, scientific python/computing, database design, and other domains.
For instance, what do we call the transformation of sparse list-based (MF6-style) inputs to grid/time-shaped arrays in the xarray data store (and vice versa at write time)? Normalization? Array/list conversion? Dense conversion? Filling? From a user perspective we are truly turning sparse representations into dense, but we don't necessarily store dense arrays (could be a sparse duck array), so these may be misleading.
Many more examples.