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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 13:38:30 -0700
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