Dear QGIS community, We recently released a number of sea-ice climate data records stored in netCDF/CF files. An example file is here <https://thredds.met.no/thredds/catalog/osisaf/met.no/reprocessed/ice/drift_455m_files/merged/2020/12/catalog.html?dataset=osisaf/met.no/reprocessed/ice/drift_455m_files/merged/2020/12/ice_drift_nh_ease2-750_cdr-v1p0_24h-202012211200.nc> :
Our files use a polar equal area projection (EASE2) and the x / y axis values are given with units "km" (kilometers): double xc(xc) ; xc:axis = "X" ; xc:units = "km" ; xc:long_name = "x coordinate of projection (eastings)" ; xc:standard_name = "projection_x_coordinate" ; double yc(yc) ; yc:axis = "Y" ; yc:units = "km" ; yc:long_name = "y coordinate of projection (northings)" ; yc:standard_name = "projection_y_coordinate" When opening these in QGIS, they are placed correctly on the map, but the message "Unkown CRS" appears in the lower-right corner. By manipulating our files, we could get QGIS to recognize the correct CRS. ncap2 -s 'xc=xc*1000f;yc=yc*1000f' infile.nc outfile.nc ncatted -O -a units,xc,m,c,"m" outfile.nc ncatted -O -a units,yc,m,c,"m" outfile.nc The NCO commands above change the x / y axis variables to units "m" (meters). The CF convention <http://cfconventions.org/Data/cf-conventions/cf-conventions-1.10/cf-conventions.html> does not impose that x / y axis variables are given with unit meters, and shows several examples using units "km". But this is apparently an issue for QGIS. Can someone please confirm that QGIS requires "meters" for these variables, and comment if this is a desired feature or if I should open a bug report at github? All the best, Thomas
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