[cf-satellite] netCDF time axis comforming to CF-1.0 convention

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• Subject: [cf-satellite] netCDF time axis comforming to CF-1.0 convention
• From: "Stephane Poirier" <stephane.poirier@xxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:01:21 -0400

Hi All,

I am trying to have our netCDF files comply to CF-1.0 convention.

CF-Convention compliance checker for NetCDF format 
(http://titania.badc.rl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/cf-checker.pl) returns the following 
error when checking my netCDF file's "time" variable: ERROR (4): axis attribute 
inconsistent with coordinate type as deduced from units and/or positive.

File 
http://www.oifii.org/do-org/dod/2010july23_time-axis-attribute-inconsistent-with-coordinate-type-as-deduced-from-units-and-or-positive.jpg
 shows how UCAR's NetCDF 4.2 Tool UI see's my netCDF file 
(http://www.oifii.org/imt/dai/crcm/MRCC.4.2.0_amno_adj_alsi_ps_196012_r(cf-1-4).nc).

Do I get this error because the "axis" attribute of my "time" variable is set 
to "t" instead of "time"?

Stephane



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