I think you want to use the standard name sea_water_pressure.
Here's the definition:
"Sea water pressure" is the pressure that exists in the medium of
sea water. It includes the pressure due to overlying sea water, sea
ice, air and any other medium that may be present.
The canonical units are dbar. There's more information at
cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/documents/cf-conventions/1.5/cf-conventions.html#vertical-coordinate
- Nan
On Jul/11/2011 7:02 AM, Rosalyn Hatcher wrote:
Hi
Paul,
From the CF Checker point of view, it does a comparison to ensure
that the units specified in the netcdf file are dimensionally
equivalent to those specified for the standard_name (if specified)
in the Standard Name table. For the standard_name "depth" the
canonical units defined are metres. Hence the error message you
received. Hopefully, someone will be able to advise if there is a
more appropriate standard_name available, which better matches
your needs.
Regards,
Rosalyn.
On 06/07/11 01:34, [email protected] wrote:
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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