Hi there Folks..

Just wondering about the use of the vertical coordinate depth, and in 
particular "pressure" with the units "decibar"..

Seems to me that the conformance checker (v2.0.2) available at 
http://puma.nerc.ac.uk/cgi-bin/cf-checker.pl doesn't much like "pressure" 
complaining that the units "decibar" is not consistent with those in the 
standard_name (v1.5/v17 table:

<file>
        double depth(depth) ;
                depth:units = "decibar" ;
                depth:units_long = "decibar (pressure)" ;
                depth:long_name = "depth" ;
                depth:standard_name = "depth" ;
                depth:axis = "Z" ;
                depth:positive = "down" ;
                depth:bounds = "depth_bnds" ;

<checker output>
Checking against CF version 1.5...
...
Using CF Checker Version 2.0.2
Using Standard Name Table Version 17 (2011-03-24T11:54:30Z)
Using Area Type Table Version 1 (5 December 2008)
...
------------------
Checking variable: depth
------------------
ERROR (3.1): Units are not consistent with those given in the standard_name 
table.



I'd appreciate some feedback if I have things around the wrong way here..

Cheers,

P

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