_If the CRS cannot be represented using the grid mapping parameters, using only
the crs_wkt attribute is considered valid._
Sorry, but to my untrained eyes this essentially means software that purports
to be CF compliant will have to be able to deal with WKT. It is very simple,
I have a
I would suggest maybe going a little slow on this one, because my guess is
many people are not following this discussion, so they will not be able to
respond. I have no idea what for example Panoply does, the Coastwatch tools,
Thredds, Seadas, and some others I can think of, and we
@snowman2 @dblodgett-usgs @JonathanGregory
Second what Dave says. The argument seems to be to break everything in the CF
world so that GDAL will work better with netcdf files. Why not improve GDAL
(supposedly based on a talk I heard the new, I believe yet to be released
version indeed
