Hi Upendra,

We had some similar data from the Secchi disc depth observations
and related data recording the observed sea water colour on the Forel-Ule water colour scale. The Forel-Ule scale is a set of character codes F1,F3 ...F11, U1, U3....U11 corresponding to known colour standards
e.g F1 is a deep Blue, U1 green and U11 brown. The scale therefore
doesn't have physical units so I don't think its in udunits.

I did start some work about how I could encode our the Secchi disc/Forel-Ule
data in netCDF and I thought that an array of character string
would suit i.e:

netcdf tmp {
dimensions:
OBS = 74 ;
string8 = 8 ;
variables:
double TIME(OBS) ;
double LATITUDE(OBS) ;
double LONGITUDE(OBS) ;
char FOREL_ULE(OBS, string8) ;
double SECCHI_DEPTH(OBS) ;
data:

...
....
FOREL_ULE =
 "U1",
 "U11",
 "U11",
....

As for 'milliequivalent' I am not sure.

HTH

Andrew Walsh
Oceanographic Data Manager
RAN-Metoc-ODS

----- Original Message ----- From: "Upendra Dadi" <upendra.d...@noaa.gov>
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Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 7:58 AM
Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] udunits corresponding to Forel-Ule,milliequivalent


Hi,
I have some data which has "Forel-Ule" for the units used. Is there a udunits corresponding to this? Also, what should I be using for milliequivalent ? Thanks for the help.
Upendra


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