Neill,
Lack of a standard name doesn't make the file non-compliant. There's no
minimum set of required attributes. If you follow the conventions in how
you make your observation number coordinate variable, then you are fine,
even if there is no standard name for it.
Grace and peace,
Jim
On 10/31/17 7:36 AM, Bowler, Neill wrote:
Hi all,
I’m very new to this, so please forgive my ignorance.
I’m working on GPSRO data, and once this data has been collated we
write it to a netCDF file. The main observation data is written as a
2D array with dimensions observation number (1 to n, where n will vary
from file to file) and height (from 0 to 60km). The file also
contains lots of additional data (such as latitude and longitude of
each observation, the ID of the satellite used, etc). The integer
observation number is the only sensible unique dimension that I know of.
My difficulty is that observation number, or something similar, is not
in the CF standard. Therefore my files are not CF-compliant, although
they are in every other respect. Is there scope for adding something
like observation number to the standard?
Many thanks,
Neill
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