[CF-metadata] Comment in coordinate variables (and CF checker)

Hi all - I've got a question about the correct use of comments in CF. In chapter 2 of the spec (actually, 2.6.2. Description of file contents) the term comment is defined this way: Miscellaneous information about the data or methods used to produce it. I'm using comments to describe some of

Re: [CF-metadata] Comment in coordinate variables (and CF checker)

Hi Nan, The CF checker is producing the INFO message because according to Appendix A the comment attribute can be attached to either a (G)lobal variable or a (D)ata variable containing non-coordinate data. This is just an informational message alerting you to the fact that you may be using

Re: [CF-metadata] code that does semantic checking of CF headers

On 4/20/2012 4:54 AM, Gaffney, Sean P. wrote: Hi everyone, Thanks for all your feedback. It's made things clearer for me now. Just to summarise then, a suite of attributes that would provide a precise numeric description of the data within a variable could then be (ignoring things such as