Hi.
If someone chooses the scalar approach, isn't it necessary to declare the coordinates via the coordinates attribute on the measurement variables?
Grace and peace,
Jim
Jim Biard
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Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites
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On May 1, 2012, at 12:21 PM, John Caron wrote:
> On 4/30/2012 8:40 PM, andrew walsh wrote:
>> Hi John and CF-Metadata list,
>>
>> Based on your earlier advice I decided using the Scalar way to represent
>> the coordinate lat, long and time rather than Vector way i.e lat(lat0, lon(lon), time(time)
>> mainly for reason of simplicity.
>
> the correct other choice is lat(profile), lon(profile), time(profile). not sure if you caught that.
>
> the scalar choice is fine for 1 profile per file. the other is used to store multiple profiles in one file.
>
>>
>> I have run the Scalar sample through the BADC netCDF checker (*Note)
>> at http://titania.badc.rl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/cf-checker.pl and I now get this error
>> on each of the lat, lon, time variables:
>>
>> ERROR (4): Axis attribute is not allowed for auxillary coordinate variables.
>> I don't get this error with the Vector approach. It looks like the checker thinks
>> my scalar lat, lon, time are 'auxilliary coordinate variables' and axis attributes
>> are not allowed on these. Is the checker interpreting things correctly?
>
> i think we recently clarified that axis is acceptable on auxiliary coordinates. OTOH, its unecessary, as long as you follow the other rules for identifying coordinates (chapter 4).
>
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