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<p class=MsoNormal>Hi all,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>With the permission of Rosalyn Hatcher I have packaged the
NetCDF-CF compliance checker as a downloadable tarball. This is available
on the Python Package Index. This tool provides the best available
verification of NetCDF-CF compliance.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The cf-checker has 2 dependencies: cdms and
udunits-2. If you are managing an ESGF datanode you already have CDAT in
/usr/local/cdat. Alternatively you can use cdat_lite. Udunits2 will
need installing separately and the udunits dynamic library must be in your ld library
path (e.g. set LD_LIBRARY_PATH).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>[cfchecker] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/cfchecker<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>[CDAT-lite] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/cdat-lite<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>[UDUNITS-2] http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/udunits<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Once you have these dependencies either download the tarball,
unpack and run "python setup.py install" or use the easy_install tool
to download and install automatically with "easy_install cfchecker"
(for instance /usr/local/cdat/bin/easy_install cfchecker)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>This makes the script "cfchecks" available.
The help page follows. Please feed back any installation issues to me and
usage issues to Ros and/or myself.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Stephen.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>$ cfchecks --help<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> cfchecker [-a|--area_types area_types.xml]
[-s|--cf_standard_names standard_names.xml] [-u|--udunits udunits.dat]
[-v|--version CFVersion] file1 [file2...]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Description:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> The cfchecker checks NetCDF files for compliance to
the CF standard.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Options:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> -a or --area_types:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> the location of the CF
area types table (xml)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> -s or --cf_standard_names:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> the location of the CF
standard name table (xml)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> -u or --udunits:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> the location of the
udunits.dat file<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> -h or --help: Prints this help text.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> -v or --version: CF version to check against.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>---<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>Stephen
Pascoe +44 (0)1235 445980<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>Centre
of Environmental Data Archival<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>Rutherford
Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot OX11 0QX, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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