The checker also didn't recognize that the "a" and "b" variables are being
used to describe a dimensionless vertical coordinate. So I'm wondering
whether the coordinate variable, lev(lev), has the standard_name and
formula_terms attributes that should allow the checker to recognize them.
Brian
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 06:17:01PM +0000, Jonathan Gregory wrote:
> Dear Karl et al
>
> To me it looks like the checker couldn't tell that they were bounds variables,
> because there is no bounds attribute pointing to them. They look like data
> variables.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Jonathan
>
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 09:48:21AM -0800, Karl Taylor wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:48:21 -0800
> > From: Karl Taylor <taylor13 at llnl.gov>
> > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US;
> > rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7
> > To: Kyle Olivo <Kyle.Olivo at noaa.gov>
> > CC: aparna Radhakrishnan <Aparna.Radhakrishnan at noaa.gov>,
> > "cf-metadata at cgd.ucar.edu" <cf-metadata at cgd.ucar.edu>, "Doutriaux,
> > Charles" <doutriaux1 at llnl.gov>
> > Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] CF Standards
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > If a, b, a_bnds, and b_bnds are dimensionless (and I think they
> > are), then CF should not raise an error that "no units attribute
> > set". Does anyone disagree?
> >
> > thanks,
> > Karl
> >
> > On 2/23/11 6:55 AM, Kyle Olivo wrote:
> > >Hi Charles,
> > >
> > >We recently CMORized the Amon variable clw and noticed that the output
> > >doesn't seem to adhere to CF standards.
> > >
> > >> double a_bnds(lev, bnds) ;
> > >> a_bnds:long_name = "vertical coordinate formula term:
> > >>a(k+1/2)" ;
> > >> double b_bnds(lev, bnds) ;
> > >> b_bnds:long_name = "vertical coordinate formula term:
> > >>b(k+1/2)" ;
> > >> double a(lev) ;
> > >> a:long_name = "vertical coordinate formula term: a(k)" ;
> > >> double b(lev) ;
> > >> b:long_name = "vertical coordinate formula term: b(k)" ;
> > >CF-Checker results:
> > >
> > >>------------------
> > >>Checking variable: a
> > >>------------------
> > >>ERROR (3.1): No units attribute set
> > >>------------------
> > >>Checking variable: a_bnds
> > >>------------------
> > >>ERROR (3.1): No units attribute set
> > >>------------------
> > >>Checking variable: b
> > >>------------------
> > >>ERROR (3.1): No units attribute set
> > >>------------------
> > >>Checking variable: b_bnds
> > >>------------------
> > >>ERROR (3.1): No units attribute set
> > >Any advice on how to proceed on this? Should a units value of some kinds
> > >have been included in the Amon MIP table?
> > >
> > >Thanks,
> > >Kyle
> > >
>
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