[CF-metadata] longitude, latitude and compress

From: Antonio Guarnieri <guarnieri>
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:19:08 +0200

Dear all,
I am trying to write a netCDF file in CF convention using the
compression method to save
disk space. I have a few questions to whom may be concerned:

1. Do you know if grads or ferret recognize the CF conventions. If they
do not,
do you know of any program that do recognize it? I tried with matlab,
but I think
it doesn't.

2. In my netCDF I have longitude and latitude as variables. Do you know if
they can be declared 2D in the CF convention ? i.e.: can it be:

float lon (lat,lon) and
float lat (lat,lon)

 or it necessarily has to be

float lon(lon) and
float lat(lat)

to be CF compliant?

Thanks a lot for your help,
best regards, Antonio Guarnieri

-- 
Antonio Guarnieri
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia
(Gruppo Nazionale di Oceanografia Operativa)
Viale Aldo Moro 44, 40127 Bologna, Italy
Tel: +39 051 3782643 Fax: +39 051 3782643
Email: guarnieri at bo.ingv.it

Received on Tue Sep 04 2007 - 10:19:08 BST