Karl (also verified by Rich) - thanks for the replies. I was using the previous release of the cf-checker which throws errors rather than ignoring and/or reporting as "info".
Thanks!! Chris From: Karl Taylor <taylo...@llnl.gov<mailto:taylo...@llnl.gov>> Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 15:21:18 -0400 To: "cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu<mailto:cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu>" <cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu<mailto:cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu>> Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] "Empty" Units attribute for dimensioned variables Dear Chris, Do you have the latest version of the checker? Is the behavior you're seeing consistent with what is stated in the email copied below? regards, Karl email from 3/1/11 Dear All, I've made a couple of fixes to the CF checker: 1) If the variable is deemed unitless, then the checker will not flag an error if either units=1 or the units attribute is omitted. 2) Fix bug where the checker was incorrectly complaining about a missing units attribute on some dimensionless variables. It's available for testing at: http://puma.nerc.ac.uk/cgi-bin/cf-checker-2.0.3.pl Let me know if you find any issues. If all's well I'll copy it to the 'live' location on Friday. Regards, Ros. On 5/18/11 12:10 PM, Christopher Mueller wrote: Hi all, I'm wondering if someone can help me sort out the most proper way to handle something. I'm processing some datasets and validating them for CF compliance using the CF Checker and I'm running into a problem with variables that are NOT dimensionless, but still really don't have a "valid" unit. For example: For the dataset here: http://hfrnet.ucsd.edu:8080/thredds/dodsC/HFRNet/USEGC/6km/hourly/RTV The "site_code" is missing a "units" attribute – but I'm stumped as to what it should be. Another example in the same dataset is the "procParams" variable. The nearest "solution" I could decipher is to assign the "units = 1", but that seems less than proper as that unit is (I believe) supposed to be reserved for fractions and the like. Any thoughts/solutions someone might have would be much appreciated. Best, Chris
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