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> On 05/25/2012 02:39 AM, Unidata IDV Support wrote: > > Your dataset is very close to CF complaint, you probably don't need a > > sample. > > I added two attributes to variable vw_level: > > > Thanks for a great help. I was really struggling with this one. > Here is the thing, the value is wv levels are pressure levels in hPa, we > cannot assign them a unit of Km I know. The unit of z coordinate doesn't need to be km in CF, just the nc java library can only take km or meter at this moment. I will try to push them to expand the library to full CF compliant. > which will just make the display incorrect. > I think in CF community, we should put up this one. > As I see, in most cases IDV does the conversion of Pressure value to > altitude values using StandardAtmospheric Pressure coordinate system. As long as nc library can take it, the IDV is not an issue. Yuan > > Thanks once again for all the help you are providing. > > regards > Ghansham > > > > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: XKA-295690 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Closed