Dear colleagues, in the group here, we recently came across a question where we thought we needed a NetCDF-CF wizard, and I'm sure these wizards are on this mailing list.
We are running a data archive for time series data on atmospheric constituents measured at surface stations across the globe. The data are archived properly together with metadata, making them usable also without direct contact with the archive or data provider. However, since much of the data is considered research grade, we have the obligation to deliver information on the principal investigator (PI) of the data together with the data, in order for the data user to agree on how to acknowledge the data PI. If you only look at one dataset of one station, putting this data into a NetCDF-CF file is a straight forward exercise - you simply add all metadata items as global attributes to the NetCDF-CF file. To make using our data easier for (model) users, we'd like to put data from several stations, all measuring the same parameter, into one file. This results in a file with several time series, each having different metadata that needs to be included. Putting this metadata into global attributes isn't an option since the metadata aren't constant for the whole file. The metadata items comprise e.g. station position, altitude, PI contact information (variable in time), instrument type, etc. Some of these items are with advantage used as co-ordinate variables, e.g. station position, but that's not a solution for the rest of metadata items. Does anybody have a smart idea? Best regards, Markus -- Dr. Markus Fiebig Senior Scientist Dept. Atmospheric and Climate Research (ATMOS) Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU) P.O. Box 100 N-2027 Kjeller Norway Tel.: +47 6389-8235 Fax : +47 6389-8050 e-mail: [email protected] skype: markus.fiebig P Please consider the environment before printing this email and attachments
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