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VAPOR is the Visualization and Analysis Platform for Ocean, Atmosphere, and Solar Researchers
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VAPOR is reading non CF-Compliant NetCDF files #3387

Open sgpearse opened 1 year ago

sgpearse commented 1 year ago

Vapor is able to import the NetCDF ~file below~, which does not have axis attributes for its coordinate variables. How is it doing this, and is it reading the data correctly?

See /glade/p/cisl/vast/vapor/data/Bugs/3387/

sgpearse commented 1 year ago

May be related to https://ncar.github.io/VaporDocumentationWebsite/dataFormatRequirements/netCDF/nonCompliantNetCDF.html

"Coordinate variables do not require an axis attribute if its axis can be inferred by a units attribute. For example, a coordinate variable with a units attribute of degreesEast would infer that it’s aligned with the with X axis, and no axis attribute is needed."