Hi Dan,
NOAA NCEI has put together some great documentation and examples on using
CF conventions for various types of observation data. Take a look at their NCEI
netCDF Templates page <https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/data/formats/netcdf/v2.0/> for
the details.
Cheers,
Ethan
On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 8:11 AM Ed Hartnett <edwardjameshartnett@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Take a look at the CF conventions:
>
> http://cfconventions.org/Data/cf-conventions/cf-conventions-1.7/cf-conventions.html#discrete-sampling-geometries
>
> Keep on netcdfing!
>
> Ed Hartnett
>
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 6:27 AM Dan Carlson <danfcarlson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi Folks-
>>
>> I am attempting to combine multiple datasets from 4 research cruises
>> around Greenland in the last 3 years. My initial thought was to make a
>> netCDF file for each station occupied by the vessel and specify dimensions
>> for each dataset collected at that station. For example, at a given station
>> we collected a full-depth CTD profile (depth, temperature, salinity, DO,
>> fluorescence, turbidity, PAR, etc.) as well as discrete water samples
>> (nutrients, chlorophyll, TSS, etc. at 5-10 depths), and profiles from other
>> instruments (Satlantic, SUNA, and others). So my netCDF file has a CTD
>> dimension, a nutrient dimension, and dimensions for any other profiles.
>> Before I commit to this I'd like to know if there's an accepted standard
>> but I haven't been able to find anything. Do any of you know how other
>> interdisciplinary research cruises have managed their data using netCDF?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dan
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