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#95: Development of CF 1.5 Data Model
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  Reporter:  markh           |       Owner:  [email protected]
      Type:  task            |      Status:  new                          
  Priority:  medium          |   Milestone:                               
 Component:  cf-conventions  |     Version:                               
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Comment (by pbentley):

 Hi David,

 > Global attributes apply to each data variable in the dataset, do they
 not?

 My current understanding is that this is not the case.

 AFAIK, the netcdf library does not implement this behaviour. And I'm not
 aware of any explicit statement within the CF specifation that says that
 global attributes routinely act as providers of default values in the case
 where a variable-scope attribute is absent. But I'm happy to be corrected
 if I've missed the salient bit of text.

 I'm fairly sure the netcdf tools I use (the usual suspects) don't rely on
 this behaviour. Could be wrong.

 Phil

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