add fake vertical coordinate for bed thickness when sed Nbed is present
rsignell-usgs opened this issue · 2 comments
rsignell-usgs commented
As noted here: USGS-CMG/usgs-cmg-portal#195, bed_thickness
is not appearing in the portal. This is because although these variables have a vertical dimension, they have no vertical coordinate variable, so the variables are not CF-compliant.
rsignell-usgs commented
We can fix this problem in NcML by adding a fake vertical coordinate variable for the bed:
<variable name="Nbed" shape="Nbed" type="double">
<attribute name="long_name" value="pseudo coordinate at seabed points"/>
<attribute name="standard_name" value="ocean_sigma_coordinate"/>
<attribute name="positive" value="up"/>
<attribute name="formula_terms" value="sigma: Nbed eta: zeta depth: h"/>
<values start="-1.0" increment="-0.01"/>
</variable>
we need to have yaml2ncml write this into the NcML file when there are bed variables.
ocefpaf commented
This is done, right? Can we close it?