Re: Convention attribute wrong in netcdf sst file

Hi John,

The files are at:
Index of ftp://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/GHRSST/data/L4/GLOB/NCDC/
click on 'AVHRR_AMSR_OI' then the year and then the Julian day.
For example:
Index of 
ftp://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/GHRSST/data/L4/GLOB/NCDC/AVHRR_AMSR_OI/2008/130/

Dick

John Caron said the following on 2/9/2009 3:38 PM:
> Hi Dick:
>
> richard.w.reynolds wrote:
>   
> > Dear John Caron,
> >
> > We can certainly fix that. However, there are almost 30 years of daily
> > files. Thus, it will take some time.
> >     
>
> Yes, I understand.
>
>   
> > We have not had complaints about this before.
> >     
>
> Because we are a generic data reader, we tend to run into these problems even 
> when specialized
> software can tolerate them.
>
>   
> > How can we be sure that this minor error is causing Ken Richmond to be
> > unable to read the netcdf files?
> >     
>
> Ken is using our software (Netcdf-Java / IDV) to read these files, so I was 
> able to confirm the problem.
>
>   
> > 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.
> >     
>
>
>   :Conventions = "CF-1.0" ;
>
> should work, but I should double check.
>
> Ken, can you download an equivalent file and send to me (or its URL)?
>
> Dick, thanks very much for your help.
>
> John
>   

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