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Hi all, After following much of this discussion on attribute conventions I am left wondering about something.... Many of these conventions would be a great idea if standardized. However, what good will they be if noone uses them? In my experience with netCDF data sets, I have NEVER seen a netCDF file created by a scientist type with Fortran code that has ANY attributes defined not even "UNITS" (computer scientist types working on netCDF packages excluded). There's just too many extra subroutine calls to do this to be bothered with by most users. (I'm not faulting netCDF here, its just that many people usually don't bother with attributes.) The only why I can see all these extra attributes being used is if the netCDF files are created by higher level packages that automatically add the extra metadata. -------------------------------------------------------- David Wojtowicz, research programmer Atmospheric Sciences Department and National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign email: davidw@xxxxxxxx phone: (217)244-1982 disclaimer: I speak only for myself. --------------------------------------------------------
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