Continuing thread:
http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/pipermail/cf-metadata/2015/058036.html
Hello All,
I'd like to pick up this thread again. The min motivation of raising it was to get a change to the following line in the draft 1.7 conformance document (in section 2.6.1) 'Files that conform to the CF version 1.5 conventions must indicate this by setting the global Conventions attribute to the string value "CF-1.5"'.
As Nan has pointed out, the UNIDATA FTP page (
ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/Conventions/) is no longer the authoritative location for NetCDF conventions, having been superseded by
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/conventions.html : so it would make sense to update the reference to the FTP page in the CF Conventions document.
It looks to me as though that page has a clear and well thought out definition of the use of the Conventions attribute, and it would make sense to adopt it. For the specific cases of UGRID and CMIP it looks as though "CF-1.7/CMIP6" or "CF-1.7/UGRID/CMIP6" would be appropriate.
For UGRID, this approach would be cleaner if the UGRID convention was actually registered and referenced on
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/conventions.html -- I'll look into that, and the same applies to CMIP conventions.
regards,
Martin
Received on Wed Jul 29 2015 - 03:04:07 BST
