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[IDV #WON-355400]: Problematic point netcdf file

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  • Subject: [IDV #WON-355400]: Problematic point netcdf file
  • Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 12:30:04 -0700
Hi Dave,

The good news:

Your file is fully CF-compliant. CF is the most widely-adopted and future-proof 
convention for storing NetCDF data, and is definitely the format you want going 
forward.

Incidentally, you can verify that a point NetCDF file is CF-compliant using 
ToolsUI [1]. Launch ToolsUI and open the file in the FeatureTypes->PointFeature 
tab. If that succeeds, click the "Dataset Info" button at the top-right. Near 
the top of the window that pops up, you should see the line:
    _CoordSysBuilder = "ucar.nc2.dataset.conv.CF1Convention"

The bad news:

It appears that IDV cannot yet read this particular point data representation. 
I'm going to throw this issue back over the fence to the IDV team--perhaps they 
can be of more assistance. Apologies for the prolonged back-and-forth.

Cheers,
Christian

[1] ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf-java/v4.5/toolsUI-4.5.jar


Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: WON-355400
Department: Support IDV
Priority: Normal
Status: Open