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.
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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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