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[CF-metadata] "Empty" Units attribute for dimensioned variables

From: Christopher Mueller <cmueller>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 19:10:18 -0000

Hi all,

I'm wondering if someone can help me sort out the most proper way to handle something. I'm processing some datasets and validating them for CF compliance using the CF Checker and I'm running into a problem with variables that are NOT dimensionless, but still really don't have a "valid" unit. For example:

For the dataset here: http://hfrnet.ucsd.edu:8080/thredds/dodsC/HFRNet/USEGC/6km/hourly/RTV

The "site_code" is missing a "units" attribute ? but I'm stumped as to what it should be. Another example in the same dataset is the "procParams" variable.

The nearest "solution" I could decipher is to assign the "units = 1", but that seems less than proper as that unit is (I believe) supposed to be reserved for fractions and the like.


Any thoughts/solutions someone might have would be much appreciated.

Best,
Chris
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