Appendix H. Annotated Examples of Discrete Geometries
variables:
double time(obs) ;
time:standard_name = “time”;
time:long_name = "time of measurement" ;
time:units = "days since 1970-01-01 00:00:00" ;
float lon(obs) ;
lon:standard_name = "longitude";
lon:long_name = "longitude of the observation";
lon:units = "degrees_east";
float lat(obs) ;
lat:standard_name = "latitude";
lat:long_name = "latitude of the observation" ;
lat:units = "degrees_north" ;
float alt(obs) ;
alt:long_name = "vertical distance above the surface" ;
alt:standard_name = "height" ;
alt:units = "m";
alt:positive = "up";
alt:axis = "Z";
float humidity(obs) ;
humidity:standard_name = "specific_humidity" ;
humidity:coordinates = "time lat lon alt" ;
float temp(obs) ;
temp:standard_name = "air_temperature" ;
temp:units = "Celsius" ;
temp:coordinates = "time lat lon alt" ;
attributes:
:featureType = "point";
In this example, the humidity(i) and temp(i) data are associated with the coordinate values time(i), lat(i), lon(i), and alt(i). The obs dimension may optionally be the netCDF unlimited dimension of the netCDF file.