File Formats

[John Caron]

Hi Ken:

You probably need to add the attribute 

  :positive = "up";

to your altitude variable, see CF-1.0 section 4.3

Ken Mankoff wrote:
> Perhaps this belongs on the netcdf mailing list, but I thought I'd post 
> here first.
> 
> I've created a netcdf file, and IDV says "No gridded data found for 
> /path/to/file, would you like to try another source". This is if I have 
> one of my axes as "altitude" with units "meters", which is a CF standard 
> I think. If I change "altitude" to "pressure" and "meters" to "hPa", 
> then the data loads in IDV.
> 
> What am I doing wrong when creating this file?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>    -k.
>