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CF compliance for uncertainty #42

Open tcarval opened 1 year ago

tcarval commented 1 year ago

Argo NetCDF uncertainty on observations is reported in the _ADJUSTED_ERROR variable. \_ADJUSTED_ERROR is an ancillary data for \_ADJUSTED. The CF convention "ancillary data" chapter recommends to use the variable attribute "ancillary_variables".

We may consider to manage "ancillary_variables":

float PSAL(N_PROF, N_LEVELS) ;

PSAL:ancillary_variables = "PROFILE_PSAL_QC PSAL_QC" ;

float PSAL_ADJUSTED(N_PROF, N_LEVELS) ;

PSAL_ADJUSTED:ancillary_variables = "PROFILE_PSAL_ADJUSTED_QC PSAL_ADJUSTED_QC PSAL_ADJUSTED_ERROR" ;