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Re: Convention attribute wrong in netcdf sst file

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  • Subject: Re: Convention attribute wrong in netcdf sst file
  • Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:03:15 -0500
Dear John Caron,
We can certainly fix that. However, there are almost 30 years of daily files. Thus, it will take some time. 

We have not had complaints about this before.
How can we be sure that this minor error is causing Ken Richmond to be unable to read the netcdf files? 

These files are also available at http://ghrsst.jpl.nasa.gov/
There
:Conventions = "CF-1.0" ;
Is this OK?
Maybe Ken Richmond can try to read those files.

Dick

John Caron said the following on 2/9/2009 12:39 PM:

Hi Richard, Chunying:

Ken Richards at environcorp is trying to read the netcdf files at
ftp://eclipse.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/OI-daily-v2/NetCDF/2004/AVHRR-AMSR

and having trouble. in looking at the file global attributes:

 :title = "Daily-OI-V2, final, Data (Ship, Buoy, AMSR-E, AVHRR, GSFC-ice)";
 :History = "Version 1.0";
 :creation_date = "2008-10-16";
 :Description = "Reynolds, et al.(2007) Daily High-resolution Blended Analyses. 
Available at
ftp://eclipse.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/OI-daily/daily-sst.pdf  Climatology is based on 
1971-2000 OI.v2 SST,
Satellite data: AMSR Navy NOAA17 NOAA18 AVHRR, Ice data: GSFC ice";
 :Source = "NOAA/National Climatic Data Center";
 :Contact = "Dick Reynolds, email: address@hidden & Chunying Liu, email:
address@hidden";
 :netcdf_Convention = "COARDS";

The problem is that

 :netcdf_Convention = "COARDS";

should be

 :Conventions = "COARDS";

is it possible for you to change this? thanks.


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Full Name: Ken Richmond
Email Address: address@hidden
Organization: ENVIRON

Description of problem: I'm unable to load any of the SST netcdfs from NOAA at
ftp://eclipse.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/OI-daily-v2/NetCDF/2004/AVHRR-AMSR



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