1. If my query spans a region, how do I determine the resolution at which it is gridded?  Clearly one knows this from the constructor parameters, but I would like to provide defaults for callers to simplify queries.  I see that there is a set of queryable attributes, and I assume that TemporalResolution or SpatialResolution should somehow be queried.  I can retrieve the attribute, but when I look at the methods and dictionary associated with the QueryableAttribute class I do not see anything that would let me know that my scale is 4 km or that measurements are taken daily.
2. Once I query it with grid.Data(...), how do I pull the values associated with the data (e.g. long/lat of each point for which data was actually returned)?   Is there a simple way to pull the index labels associated with the query?
   
3. Is kriging supported?
   
4. Is there a way to determine what the possible parameters can be programatically?  I see in the PODAAC.MODISL3SSTTimeSeries class that these appear to be hardcoded, but they should be derivable from the Thredds catalog.  In principal, I would think that a classmethod could be written to return valid values.  Has this been done?
5. How is the data cache associated with the DataSetCollection used?  Is it set explicitly?  How/when is the cache purged?  It seems like this is associated with instances rather than classes, so I'm assuming it would make sense to save instances when they are created (unless we simply set the cache directories for each instance to point to the same place).  Are datasets thread safe?

Thanks so much,
Marie

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Marie Roch
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San Diego State University

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography

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