With the permission of Rosalyn Hatcher I have packaged the NetCDF-CF
compliance checker as a downloadable tarball. This is available on the
Python Package Index. This tool provides the best available
verification of NetCDF-CF compliance.
The cf-checker has 2 dependencies: cdms and udunits-2. Cdms is part of
CDAT, alternatively you can use cdat_lite. Udunits2 will need
installing separately and the udunits dynamic library must be in your ld
library path (e.g. set LD_LIBRARY_PATH).
[cfchecker]
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/cfchecker
[CDAT-lite]
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/cdat-lite
[UDUNITS-2]
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/udunits
Once you have these dependencies either download the tarball, unpack and
run "python setup.py install" or use the easy_install tool to download
and install automatically with "easy_install cfchecker" (for instance
/usr/local/cdat/bin/easy_install cfchecker)
This makes the script "cfchecks" available. The help page follows.
Please feed back any installation issues to me and usage issues to Ros
and/or myself.
Cheers,
Stephen.
$ cfchecks --help
cfchecker [-a|--area_types area_types.xml] [-s|--cf_standard_names
standard_names.xml] [-u|--udunits udunits.dat] [-v|--version CFVersion]
file1 [file2...]
Description:
The cfchecker checks NetCDF files for compliance to the CF standard.
Options:
-a or --area_types:
the location of the CF area types table (xml)
-s or --cf_standard_names:
the location of the CF standard name table (xml)
-u or --udunits:
the location of the udunits.dat file
-h or --help: Prints this help text.
-v or --version: CF version to check against.
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Centre of Environmental Data Archival
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot OX11 0QX, UK
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