From the CF 1.6 Convention, chapter 3.1 Units:
"The units attribute is required for all variables that represent
dimensional quantities (except for boundary variables defined in Section
7.1, “Cell Boundaries” and climatology variables defined in Section 7.4,
“Climatological Statistics”)."
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Hi Egil:
My first thought is that its not a dimensional quantity. Why do you
think it is?
John
On 2/16/2012 8:00 AM, Egil Støren wrote:
From the CF 1.6 Convention, chapter 3.1 Units:
"The units attribute is required for all variables that represent
dimensional quantities (except for bounda
Egil,
Units of physical quantities are only meaningful for physical quantities
(yes, I know that's a tautology :-). Is the "profile_id" a physical
quantity? I wouldn't think so from its name. If it isn't, then a unit
attribute would be meaningless and possibly misleading.
Regards,
Steve Emme
Dead John and Steve,
Yes, I suppose it is not a dimensional quantity. I am not sure what is
meant by this concept, I just assumed it was a variable with dimensions
(not a scalar). But I suppose it means something that can refer to a
physical property of the four-dimensional space-time.
Howev