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Hi Kyle, The CF standard is quite stable, the last change was a year ago, and changes so far have been backward and forward compatible. The CF standard name table changes more quickly but again version compatibility is an important consideration. Ethan On 2/17/2010 12:19 PM, Kyle Shannon wrote: > Are new versions quite frequent, or has the CF reached a fairly stable > release? I would like to use CF for a program, but if it changes > frequently I may have issues. > > kss [snip] > > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Ethan Davis <edavis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > <mailto:edavis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > Hi Kyle, > > The "earth_radius" attribute was added to CF in version 1.2 (May 2008). > The "spherical_earth_radius_meters" attribute pre-dates that CF version > and our GRIB reading code hasn't been updated to reflect that change. > > We'll get that fixed and give our GRIB to CF code another look. We'll > try to get any fixes on this into our next netCDF-java release (which > will hopefully be in the next few days). If they don't make it into that > release, they should be in the next one. > > Thanks, > > Ethan > > On 2/16/2010 1:31 PM, Kyle Shannon wrote: > > Is there any reason why the radius tag is: > "spherical_earth_radius_meters" > > instead of the CF-1.0 tag: > > "earth_radius" > > ? [snip]
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