Re: [netCDFJava #WHS-849334]: point observation question

Ellyn Montgomery wrote:
> Hi John-
>
> Thanks very much for the help.  I can't believe we missed the convention 
> attribute.  Now I have a file that shows up in ToolsUI-4.2 as a station on 
> the PointFeature tab- great progress! 
>
> However the altitude and nobs fields that are displayed when you click 
> "station" don't seem to be interpreted correctly, and I'm not sure what to 
> change to make what's in our files gets represented correctly.  The 
> height, elevation or altitude of the measurements is in the depth 
> variable, with the attribute positve=down.  I'm not sure what else is 
> needed to get this parsed as altitude.  Something special in the 
> standard_name attribute?  

yes, standard_name = "station_altitude";

im seeing some other problems i need to investigate, i will get back to you.