Shouldn't the the variables s, a, and t be of type string? I believe
that a scalar variable of type char is one character long, isn't it?
(See Section 5.2 of the NUG
<
https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs/netcdf.html#CDL-Data-Types>)
On 12/17/15 1:53 PM, David Hassell wrote:
> Hello Dan,
>
> Thanks for the nice example. I think there is an extra case you could
> include. From #104:
>
> "If a string-valued auxiliary coordinate variable has only one
> dimension (the maximum length of the string), it is a string-valued
> scalar coordinate variable"
>
> Adding that to your example (dimension maxlen, variable u):
>
> dimensions:
> x = 180;
> y = 290;
> p = 1;
> n = 5;
> maxlen = 256;
>
> variables:
> float d(y, x, p, n);
> d: coordinates = "lat lon h s a z t u";
>
> float x(x); # coordinate variable
> float y(y); # coordinate variable
> float p(p); # size 1 coordinate variable
>
> float lat(y, x); # auxiliary coordinate variable
> float lon(y, x); # auxiliary coordinate variable
> float h(p); # size 1 auxiliary coordinate variable
> char s(n); # string-valued auxiliary coordinate variable
> char a(p); # size 1 string-valued auxiliary coordinate variable
>
> float z; # numeric scalar coordinate variable
> char t; # string-valued scalar coordinate variable
> char u(maxlen); # string-valued scalar coordinate variable
>
> All the best,
>
> David
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