<div dir="ltr">Apologies for a slightly off-topic question, but I want to draw on the expertise on this list.<div><br></div><div>I've noticed that many of the netCDF datasets I download, esp. those from ESRL, have similar attributes that go beyond just CF-compliance. A few examples:</div><div><br></div><div>- time is always a double instead of a float</div><div>- time is usually in units of days or hours since 1800</div><div>- _FillValue isn't zero</div><div>- The coordinate arrays are named time, level, lat, lon.</div><div><br></div><div>Is there a higher standard that dictates these practices? I ask here because NCL seems to play a little nicer with these files (esp. time as a double). My goal is to provide feedback to the data producers here at NCDC so that they can produce netCDF files that are as easily accessible as possible.</div><div><br></div><div> Thanks!</div><div> Carl<br><div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><br><table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" style="background-color:transparent;max-width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px;border:3px solid rgb(170,170,170);font-family:Times;line-height:12px"><tbody><tr><td align="center" height="71" width="71"><span style="font-size:11px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.cicsnc.org/" style="color:rgb(38,58,143);text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.cicsnc.org/assets/images/cicsnc-logo.png" width="96" height="94"></a><a href="http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-8711-2011" target="_blank"><br></a></span></span><a href="http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-8711-2011" target="_blank"><img src="http://labs.researcherid.com/mashlets/badge/rid-idsymbol4.gif" width="96" height="56" alt="http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-8711-2011"></a><br></td><td valign="top"><span style="font-size:11px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Carl J. Schreck III, PhD</b><br><b>Research Associate</b><br><a href="http://cicsnc.org/" style="color:rgb(38,58,143);text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold" target="_blank">Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites NC</a><br><a href="http://ncsu.edu/" style="color:rgb(38,58,143);text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold" target="_blank">North Carolina State University</a><br><a href="http://ncdc.noaa.gov/" style="color:rgb(38,58,143);text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold" target="_blank">NOAA's National Climatic Data Center</a><br>151 Patton Ave, Asheville, NC 28801<br>e: </span></span><a href="mailto:cjschrec@ncsu.edu" style="color:rgb(38,58,143);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px;text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold" target="_blank">cjschrec@ncsu.edu</a><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px"><span style="font-size:11px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">o: <a value="+18282573140" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">+1 828 257 3140</a><br></span></span><a href="http://cyclonecenter.org/" style="color:rgb(38,58,143);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px;text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold" target="_blank">CycloneCenter.org: Help analyze tropical cyclones</a><br><a href="http://monitor.cicsnc.org/mjo/" style="color:rgb(38,58,143);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px;text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold" target="_blank">monitor.cicsnc.org/mjo: See recent MJO diagnostics</a><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px"></td></tr></tbody></table></div>
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