Hello,
For a new satellite launch, we have decided to use NetCDF files to
deliver product data.
They will be CF-1.0 compliant and we are checking our definitions with
the online checker (http://titania.badc.rl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/cf-checker.pl).
For a variable (in fact for all variables which have the flag_values
attribute) we
have the error message:
ERROR: Attribute flag_values of incorrect type
The variable definition is:
byte alt_echo_type(time) ;
alt_echo_type:long_name = "altimeter echo type" ;
alt_echo_type:_FillValue = 127b ;
alt_echo_type:flag_values = 0b, 1b ;
alt_echo_type:flag_meanings = "ocean_like non_ocean_like" ;
alt_echo_type:coordinates = "lon lat" ;
As recommended in the CF-1.0 documentation, the type of the
flag_values attribute is the same as the variable one.
So here is my question: what is wrong ? In my definition or
in the checker ?
Thanks,
Ph.P.
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Philippe Poilbarbe
CLS - Space Oceanography Division
