Jay, You could use the variable time as a single value to establish the time (in complete CF date format) of the first observation
Another multi dimension array can then be used to store the time offset (in hours or seconds etc.) of each measurement from variable time Or else convert the hourly measurements into a proper CF date format to store in variable time From: CF-metadata <cf-metadata-boun...@cgd.ucar.edu<mailto:cf-metadata-boun...@cgd.ucar.edu>> on behalf of Ajay Krishnan - NOAA Affiliate <ajay.krish...@noaa.gov<mailto:ajay.krish...@noaa.gov>> Date: Tuesday, October 25, 2016 at 11:07 AM To: "cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu<mailto:cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu>" <cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu<mailto:cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu>> Subject: [CF-metadata] Handling time when date is "missing" Hi All, I have a user that's converting some IMMA format files to CF compliant NetCDF files. The problem is that, we've run into several measurements where just the hour of measurement has been recorded without the corresponding "date". We would prefer not to omit these data in the conversion, because they are considered valid measurements (and play a role in monthly summary statistics) How do we represent this in a valid CF NetCDF format since we can't use _FillValues for 'time'? Any suggestions for handling such special cases? Thanks, Ajay
_______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
