Re: [CF-metadata] machine-accessible CF compliance checker?

2012-03-01 Thread Rosalyn Hatcher
Hi Stephen, I've been out of the office the last couple of days and not seen this till now. #3 is already on my to-do list :-) #2 I actually do this quite a bit and just supply the ncdump -c ouput passed through ncgen and ignore the couple of errors for the checks that can't be performed.

Re: [CF-metadata] machine-accessible CF compliance checker?

2012-03-01 Thread stephen.pascoe
Great, I had further thoughts last night and the logical way forward is to get the CGI script to generate a dummy netcdf file from CDL submitted in the web form. An official headers-only option would definitely help. Ros, is the CGM CGI script written in perl? Ours is but I have no idea

Re: [CF-metadata] machine-accessible CF compliance checker?

2012-03-01 Thread Rosalyn Hatcher
Hi Stephen, Yes, I agree and I think it would be pretty easy to add in the conversion of a CDL to netcdf. I'm going to have to make one more release of the current incarnation of the checker for CF-1.6 so I'll have a look at this at the same time. The CGI script is indeed written in perl.

[CF-metadata] Conformance Requirements/Recommendations for CF-1.6

2012-03-01 Thread Rosalyn Hatcher
Dear All, Before I go ahead and start this, I just wanted to check if anybody has already written or started to write the Requirements and Recommendations for Chapter9 - Discrete Sampling Geometries to go into the CF Conformance and Requirements Document? I vaguely remember someone saying

Re: [CF-metadata] machine-accessible CF compliance checker?

2012-03-01 Thread John Caron
Hi all: If the checker can read from opendap, then putting the files on an opendap server might be helpful, in that only the metadata is read instead of the entire file. There are a few difference among servers (Hyrax, TDS, GDS, etc) but im pretty sure this would work for netcdf files well

Re: [CF-metadata] machine-accessible CF compliance checker?

2012-03-01 Thread Gallagher James
On Mar 1, 2012, at 8:49 AM, John Caron wrote: Hi all: If the checker can read from opendap, then putting the files on an opendap server might be helpful, in that only the metadata is read instead of the entire file. There are a few difference among servers (Hyrax, TDS, GDS, etc) but im

Re: [CF-metadata] Conformance Requirements/Recommendations for CF-1.6

2012-03-01 Thread Rosalyn Hatcher
Dear Jonathan, Yes, that's fine. If nobody comes forward to say they've started it in the next day or so, I'll put together a first draft. Regards, Ros. On 01/03/12 15:03, Jonathan Gregory wrote: Dear Ros As far as I know, this has not been done. I have a vague memory that I might have

[CF-metadata] CF Standard Name Forms

2012-03-01 Thread Rob Ragsdale
Hello All, I would like to ask about the inconsistent use of forms for parameters reported in the CF standard names table. For example, nitrate is listed in *moles_of_X_per_unit_mass_in_Y* and *mole_concentration_of_X_in_Y*, whereas nitrite is listed only in mole_of_X_per_unit_mass_in_Y. Is