If I am not mistaken, you need to define your variable XDim and YDim
as the "coordinate variables", such that the ncdump (or equivalent)
shows:
XDim(XDim);
YDim(YDim);
See section 5.2 of the CF 1 conventions in the document you referenced.
Hope that helps.
tom
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Choonghwan Lee <cholee@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> While converting HDF-EOS2 files to files that can be read by netCDF4, I got
> a question regarding coordinate variables. There is a variable that has two
> coordinate variables: XDim and YDim. I found the following webpage defines
> what coordinate variable is, but it doesn't mention my case.
>
> https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/guidec/guidec-7.html#HEADING7-6
> 7
>
> The problem is that longitude and latitude cannot be represented as 1d
> array. To handle this, I referred to CF convention which can be found from
>
> http://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/documents/cf-conventions/1.1/cf-conventions.html#id
> 2617539
>
> According to the above convention, I generated a file like the following:
>
> group: Data Fields {
> dimensions:
> XDim = 2400 ;
> YDim = 2400 ;
> variables:
> ubyte Snow_Cover_Daily_Tile(YDim, XDim) ;
> Snow_Cover_Daily_Tile:coordinates = "lon lat" ;
> double lon(YDim, XDim) ;
> double lat(YDim, XDim) ;
>
> It seems this file is a legal netcdf4 file in that ncdump in the latest
> netCDF4 snapshot does not reject this file. However, I'm wondering if netcdf
> library recognizes "coordinates" attribute and relates "lon" and "lat" as
> coordinate variables. If netcdf library does not recognize them, is there
> any standardized way to inject two-dimensional coordinate variables? I read
> one draft written in 1997, but I have no idea if this draft was published.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Choonghwan Lee
>
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