[ncl-talk] CF Convention

[Carl Schreck]

Sorry, I misframed the question.... We know the files aren't cf compliant
yet, we're just curious if there's a particular version ncl uses. More
importantly, if anyone has experience or examples making trajectory files
with trajectories of different lengths, that'd be helpful. Thanks!

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On Jan 5, 2018 10:56 AM, "Carl Schreck" <cjschrec at ncsu.edu> wrote:

> Which CF convention version does NCL primarily use?
>
> Ken Knapp (CC'd) is developing a new version of IBTrACS (beta version
> attached) and says it's CF 1.6/1.7 compliant. But he uses "time" as one of
> the named dimensions of many of the variables, but also uses "time" as a
> 2-d variable, not related to that dimension.
>
> When I try to read any of the variables that have time as a dimension, I
> get this error:
>
> fatal:_NclOneDValCoordDataCreate: Number of dimensions is greater than
> one, could not create coordinate data object
>
> I also cannot write a _FillValue to the time variable since NCL believes
> time to be a coordinate variable. (no error provided, it just doesn't do
> it).
>
> It'd probably be cleaner to just rename one of the "times", but we were
> just curious if the current format runs afoul of the CF convention or
> whether NCL is adding the extra limitations.
>
> Thanks!
> Carl
>
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