GliderDAC Compliance Checker Plugin

This ioos/compliance-checker plugin supports the following sources and standards:

Standard	Checker Name
Glider DAC	gliderdac

Installation

Conda

$ conda install -c conda-forge cc-plugin-glider

Pip

$ pip install cc-plugin-glider

See the ioos/compliance-checker for additional Installation notes

Usage

$ compliance-checker -l
IOOS compliance checker available checker suites (code version):
  ...
  - gliderdac (x.x.x)
  ...
$ compliance-checker -t gliderdac [dataset_location]

See the ioos/compliance-checker for additional Usage notes

Summary of the Checks

The checks have been designed to help data providers submit the highest quality data to the GliderDAC. Submitting uncompliant data to the DAC may result in services not working. For example, not providing the correct Sea Name in the GLobal attributes may put your glider deployment into the wrong region on the GliderMap. Not providing proper metadata about the platform and instruments, and attribution may prevent NCEI from archiving your data. And not making your files CF compliant could prevent the files from showing up on ERDDAP and THREDDS servers all together.

High priority checks

Failures in these checks should be addressed before submitting to the GliderDAC!

check_required_variables
check_dimensions
check_lat_lon_attributes
check_time_attributes
check_pressure_depth_attributes
check_ctd_variable_attributes
check_profile_variable_attributes_and_types
check_global_attributes
check_standard_names
check_monotonically_increasing_time
check_dim_no_data
check_depth_array

Medium priority checks:

check_qc_variables
check_primary_variable_attributes
check_trajectory_variables
check_container_variables
check_qartod
check_ancillary_variables
check_dtype
check_valid_min_dtype
check_valid_max_dtype

Low priority checks

check_ioos_ra
check_valid_lon
check_ncei_tables

Optional environment variables

Paths for cached text files for institution, project, instrument, and platform authority tables can be set with the following environment variables

INSTITUTION_TABLE
PROJECT_TABLE
INSTRUMENT_TABLE
PLATFORM_TABLE

Additionally, a cached version of the NCEI seanames.xml file can be provided with a filesystem path in SEA_NAME_TABLE environment variable.

The table below indicates the relationship of the environment variables for cached table locations on disk to their usual remote locations.

Environment Variable	Remote Table Location
`INSTITUTION_TABLE`	https://gliders.ioos.us/ncei_authority_tables/institutions.txt
`PROJECT_TABLE`	https://gliders.ioos.us/ncei_authority_tables/projects.txt
`INSTRUMENT_TABLE`	https://gliders.ioos.us/ncei_authority_tables/instruments.txt
`PLATFORM_TABLE`	https://gliders.ioos.us/ncei_authority_tables/platforms.txt
`SEA_NAME_TABLE`	https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/General/NODC-Archive/seanames.xml

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