On Aug 23, 2012, at 2:37 PM, Randy Horne wrote:
>
> What is the “generally accepted” approach for how a specific quality flag
> value should be assigned for a corresponding data value (in the corresponding
> data variable) that has a _FillValue ?
>
> Is it sufficient that, because the data v
>From the QARTOD meetings I attended and the vocabularies in our repository,
>I'm confident the oceanographic community uses a lot more QC flag approaches
>than listed so far. So it is safe to say that there is no single approach.
Still, the approaches from Randy and Roy certainly are accepted
Hi Randy,
The practice recommended for SeaDataNet is to specify a fill value for the flag
that is defined in the flag convention as 'missing value'. I always feel more
comfortable with explicit semantics.
Cheers, Roy.
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Randy,
The oceanographic community uses a set of integer QC flags (0 to 9)
See document http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/GTSPP/document/qcmans/MG22rev1.pdf
and section 2 'Quality Flagging'.
One of the flags is for a 'missing value' = 9. Would that suit your fill value
case?
A netCDF sample in CDL is:
