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Revision as of 15:13, 13 April 2016 by imported>Lang Guenther (Englisch text was added)


List of attributes

Metadata from nc_meta.dat or other input steering data files

  • Institution
    institution = "Bundesanstalt fuer Wasserbau - Federal Waterways Engineering and Research Institute" ;
  • Publisher
    naming_authority = "de.baw" ;
    publisher_name = "BAW - Abteilung Wasserbau - Hydraulic Engineering - Hamburg" ;
    publisher_email = "info@baw.de" ;
    publisher_url = "http://www.baw.de/de/wasserbau/index.html" ;
  • Project
    project = "Creation of CF NetCDF files using UnTRIM2007" ;
  • Method
    source = "untrim2007_work_gl.xe test version" ;
    references = "http://wiki.baw.de/en/index.php5/UNTRIM2007" ;
  • Data set
    title = "results for site specific model KURVE" ;
    id = "untrim2007-run-entwicklung-kurve-xe-untrim2007-00001" ;
    summary = "2D and 3D results were generated for test purposes.\\nContains water level, current velocity, salinity, suspended sediment concentration, tracer concentration plus additional auxiliary variables.\\nSeveral global metadata have been created for the first time." ;
  • Creator
    creator_name = "Guenther Lang" ;
    creator_url = "http://www.baw.de/EN/wasserbau/wasserbau.html" ;
    creator_email = "guenther.lang@baw.de" ;
  • Contributors
    contributor_name = "Guenther Lang, Susanne Spohr" ;
    contributor_role = "project leader, co-worker" ;
  • Acknowledgment
    acknowledgment = "grid generated by Christoph Lippert (smile consult, Hannover, http://www.smileconsult.de/)" ;

Automatically added metadata

  • Conventions
    Conventions = "CF-1.6" ; // if CF compliant
    Conventions = "UGRID-1.0" ; // if UGRID compliant but not CF compliant
    Conventions = "CF-1.6, UGRID-1.0" ; // if CF compliant and UGRID compliant
    standard_name_vocabulary = "CF-1.6" ;
  • History
    history = "/net/themis2/system/akprog/examples/untrim2007/data/kurve/\\n06/27/2012-09:54:36.462000000 UTC, h_grid, Grid_File\\n06/27/2012-09:54:44.984000000 UTC, m_untrim2007_utromp2007, utromp2007.xe.dat" ;
    Each application using the data should add an entry to this attribute which could contain the following information:
    1. date and time of program execution,
    2. name of executable, and
    3. name of major input steering data file, if present.
    date_created = "2012-06-27T09:54:44.045000000+00:00" ; // see ISO 8601
    date_modified = "2012-06-27T09:54:44.045000000+00:00" ; // see ISO 8601
  • Data set
    uuid = "08f169c6-7b7b-1030-8001-0030487ca4a8" ; // see Universally Unique Identifier
  • Spatial reference
    geospatial_lat_min = 53.00748773384447357 ;
    geospatial_lat_max = 53.0168838793441595 ;
    geospatial_lat_units = "degrees_north" ;
    geospatial_lat_resolution = "on average 14.13 meters" ;
    geospatial_lon_min = 7.8641123924508 ;
    geospatial_lon_max = 7.897937700526 ;
    geospatial_lon_units = "degrees_east" ;
    geospatial_lon_resolution = "on average 14.13 meters" ;
  • Time reference
    time_coverage_start = "2001-07-24T00:00:00+01:00" ; // see ISO 8601
    time_coverage_end = "2001-07-24T04:00:00+01:00" ; // see ISO 8601
    time_coverage_resolution = "P000000DT00H30M00S" ;// see ISO 8601

Remarks

  • Global attributes describe the data source as well as the institution which originally created the data. An overview of the use history is also given. Also informations about metadata conventions used are contained.
  • From the attributes listed above not all of them are always present.
  • For further information on this subject see CF Metadata Convention and NODC NetCDF Templates.

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