[CF-metadata] string variables and netCDF4

From: Karl Taylor <taylor13>
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 09:31:41 -0700

Hi all,

I have a question from Robert Pincus that I don't know that answer to:

Is it ok to use a one-dimensional ?string? variable instead of a two-dimensional character variable to encode expt_label? This might be asking whether it?s ok to use netCDF4, which I certainly hope is the case.

He's defining an array of "labels".

The conventions document states: "NetCDF does not support a character
string type, so these must be represented as character arrays."

so my take on this is that a one-dimensional array of "string" variables
would not be permitted. In general do we forbid use of any of the new
netCDF4 structures? (I guess yes).

thanks,
Karl
Received on Fri Aug 12 2016 - 10:31:41 BST