Hi andrew:
The file you sent (20110818T001140Z_M_HI504BEN.nc) appears to be a
single profile. Assuming that, you would use the following template:
http://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/documents/cf-conventions/1.6/cf-conventions.html#idp8363696
note that lat, lon and time coordinates all have to be scalars.
John
On 4/18/2012 8:24 PM, andrew walsh wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> We have now constructed a real netCDF file for you to check. QC flag
> variables have been added in. The QC flagging method is based on the
> proposed IODE scheme in (1) below.
>
> Attached are the sample .nc file, text (ncdump) of same and a document
> specifying the CDL.
>
> Thanks and Regards,
>
> Andrew Walsh
>
>
> Ref.
>
> (1) Konovalov et. al (March 2012), Proposal to adopt a quality flag
> scheme standard
> for oceanographic and marine meteorological data, Version 1.2.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Caron" <caron at unidata.ucar.edu>
> To: "andrew walsh" <awalsh at metoc.gov.au>
> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 10:44 AM
> Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] Ocean CTD data following CF Conventions v1.6
>
>
>> ok
>>
>> On 4/4/2012 6:42 PM, andrew walsh wrote:
>>> Hi John,
>>>
>>> Thank for your offer to check a sample netCDF CTD data file. At
>>> moment we don't have
>>> some real .nc file but when we do I can send you a file for checking.
>>>
>>> Andrew
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: John Caron
>>> To: cf-metadata at cgd.ucar.edu
>>> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 5:55 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] Ocean CTD data following CF Conventions v1.6
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi all:
>>>
>>> Lets see, I havent followed the entire conversation, but:
>>>
>>> 1) Andrew if you can send me a sample file (not just the CDL) I can
>>> check if it works in the CDM with the new 1.6 conventions, and maybe
>>> give you some advice from my POV.
>>>
>>> 2) Aggregation in the CDM comes in 2 flavors. 1) The original
>>> implementation simply appends multidimensional arrays together, eg
>>> "joinNew " and "joinExisting" NCML aggregation. I call it "syntactic
>>> aggregation" because it doesnt know what its aggregating, and the
>>> homogeneity requirements are strict. 2) "Feature Type collections"
>>> (aka "semantic aggregation") are the more recent development. These
>>> understand the coordinate information of the data, and so can handle
>>> variations in the representation, eg ragged arrays, scalar
>>> coordinates, etc. In this case, the CDM understands a dataset as a
>>> collection of "features objects", which can be stored in a
>>> collection of files. The interfaces to these collections is still
>>> under development. Most current and future work in the CDM is in
>>> this category.
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>> snip ....
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>>
Received on Wed Apr 25 2012 - 18:48:50 BST
