Hi Karl,

Christina's problem is because her usage of standard name modifier is changing 
the canonical units from those of the unmodified Standard Name. Only solutions 
I can see are either to omit the Standard Name from this channel or set up a 
new Standard Name for raw chorophyll as counts.  The latter seems to me to be 
not be as easy as it sounds.  Any other opinions?

Cheers, Roy.
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From: cf-metadata-boun...@cgd.ucar.edu [cf-metadata-boun...@cgd.ucar.edu] On 
Behalf Of Karl Taylor [taylo...@llnl.gov]
Sent: 23 February 2011 17:54
To: cristina.tronc...@artov.isac.cnr.it
Cc: cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu
Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] help

Hi Chritina,

For dimensionless variables, you can either omit the units attribute or set it 
to "1".  I don't understand why this error is raised.  Did you assign a 
"standard_name" to CHL_count?  If so, what did you assign?

thanks,
Karl

On 2/23/11 6:48 AM, 
cristina.tronc...@artov.isac.cnr.it<mailto:cristina.tronc...@artov.isac.cnr.it> 
wrote:

Hello,
I have a problem. iN MY NETCDF FILE I define the CHL_count variable.
it is a dimensionless variable.
I used the "standard name modifier: COUNT" for the variable CHL.

for IT I define: units="1" as indicated in the Appendix C of the
"cf-conventions1_4.pdf".

but the cf checker gives me this error:

------------------
Checking variable: CHL_count
------------------
ERROR (3.1): Units are not consistent with those given in the
standard_name table.

WHAT SHOULD I PUT FOR THE ATTRIBUTE UNITS FOR THE CHL_COUNT VARIABLE?
IT IS DIMENSIONLESS!

THANKS IN ADVANCE

CRISTINA TRONCONI


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