Example CF-NetCDF for Satellite
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Creating Empty CF-NetCDF File
NCML
<netcdf xmlns="http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/namespaces/netcdf/ncml-2.2"> <explicit /> <attribute name="title" type="string" value="NASA TOMS Project" /> <attribute name="comment" type="string" value="NASA Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer Project" /> <attribute name="Conventions" type="string" value="CF-1.0" /> <dimension name="time" length="0" isUnlimited="true" /> <dimension name="lat" length="180" /> <dimension name="lon" length="288" /> <variable name="time" type="int" shape="time"> <attribute name="standard_name" type="string" value="time" /> <attribute name="long_name" type="string" value="time" /> <attribute name="units" type="string" value="days since 1979-01-01" /> <attribute name="axis" type="string" value="T" /> </variable> <variable name="lat" type="double" shape="lat"> <attribute name="standard_name" type="string" value="latitude" /> <attribute name="long_name" type="string" value="latitude" /> <attribute name="units" type="string" value="degrees_north" /> <attribute name="axis" type="string" value="Y" /> <values start="-89.5" increment="1" /> </variable> <variable name="lon" type="double" shape="lon"> <attribute name="standard_name" type="string" value="longitude" /> <attribute name="long_name" type="string" value="longitude" /> <attribute name="units" type="string" value="degrees_east" /> <attribute name="axis" type="string" value="X" /> <values start="-179.375" increment="1.25" /> </variable> <variable name="AI" type="float" shape="time lat lon"> <attribute name="long_name" type="string" value="Aerosol Index" /> <attribute name="units" type="string" value="fraction" /> <attribute name="_FillValue" type="float" value="NaN" /> <attribute name="missing_value" type="float" value="NaN" /> </variable> </netcdf>