Re: Netcdf CDM and ragged arrays

Hi all:

you are seeing some issues with CDM version being behind the CD spec, 
The next CDM  4.3 release will fix these, possibly this week.

john

On 12/19/2011 3:07 PM, Kyle Wilcox wrote:
> Andy -
>
> I got this working by adding the "standard_name = station_id" attribute to the 
> "station_name" variable.
>
> Use this (change path to NetCDF file as needed):
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <netcdf xmlns="http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/namespaces/netcdf/ncml-2.2"; 
> location="C:/Users/kwilcox/Desktop/watlev_NOAA.F.C_IKE_VIMS_3D_WITHWAVE.nc">
>    <variable name="station_name">
>      <attribute name="standard_name" value="station_id" />
>         </variable>
> </netcdf>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Bird
> Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 11:30 AM
> To: Ethan Davis; Kyle Wilcox
> Cc: Alexander Crosby; John Caron
> Subject: RE: Netcdf CDM and ragged arrays
>
> Hi Ethan,
>
> Thank you for getting back to me. Please find attached a small example of an 
> IMEDS file netcdf ragged array. I can provide many more links via opendap if 
> required.
>
> The data is typically multi station time series data. Alex can provide the 
> detailed information on the netcdf construction and outline if needed.
>
> Best,
>
> Andy
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ethan Davis [mailto:address@hidden]
> Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 2:31 PM
> To: Kyle Wilcox
> Cc: Andy Bird; Alexander Crosby; John Caron
> Subject: Re: Netcdf CDM and ragged arrays
>
> Hi Andy,
>
> Yes, a sample would be great. What type of data are you working with?
> Point data, soundings, etc?
>
> I'm CCing John Caron who wrote the FeatureDataset code. I believe there are 
> some fixes in 4.3 but I'll let John speak to that in more detail.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ethan
>
> On 12/16/2011 10:36 AM, Kyle Wilcox wrote:
> > Andy -
> >
> > Can you send along the NetCDF file you are working with?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > *From:* Andy Bird [address@hidden]
> > *Received:* Friday, 16 Dec 2011, 11:57am
> > *To:* address@hidden [address@hidden]
> > *CC:* Alexander Crosby [address@hidden]; Kyle Wilcox
> > [address@hidden]
> > *Subject:* Netcdf CDM and ragged arrays
> >
> > Hi Ethan,
> >
> >
> >
> > I was wondering if you could help with a small problem we are having,
> > we are trying to update one of our THREDDS services to work with
> > ragged arrays but are having some issues with the
> > FeatureDatasetFactoryManager.wrap command returning a null object when
> > parsing the netcdf feature type information. We are using version 4.2
> > of the netcdf tools. Kyle's thoughts were that some of the issues we
> > were having might be fixed in version 4.3??
> >
> >
> >
> > Happy to provide more information if needed.
> >
> >
> >
> > Andy Bird
> >
> >
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