Hi Dave,
The good news:
Your file is fully CF-compliant. CF is the most widely-adopted and future-proof
convention for storing NetCDF data, and is definitely the format you want going
forward.
Incidentally, you can verify that a point NetCDF file is CF-compliant using
ToolsUI [1]. Launch ToolsUI and open the file in the FeatureTypes->PointFeature
tab. If that succeeds, click the "Dataset Info" button at the top-right. Near
the top of the window that pops up, you should see the line:
_CoordSysBuilder = "ucar.nc2.dataset.conv.CF1Convention"
The bad news:
It appears that IDV cannot yet read this particular point data representation.
I'm going to throw this issue back over the fence to the IDV team--perhaps they
can be of more assistance. Apologies for the prolonged back-and-forth.
Cheers,
Christian
[1] ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf-java/v4.5/toolsUI-4.5.jar
Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: WON-355400
Department: Support IDV
Priority: Normal
Status: Open
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