[Esip-documentation] how to describe flag_values, flag_meanings in netCDF

[Anna Milan - NOAA Federal via Esip-documentation]

Ok.
Thanks for all of your feedback! Does this look more compliant?

<attribute name="flag_values" value="0 1 2"/>
    <attribute name="flag_meanings"
value="One_or_more_measurements_are_backfilled_from_the_spacecraft_recorder
Packet_time_is_in_the_future Packet_time_is_older_than_the_threshold"/>

Anna
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On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Bob Simons - NOAA Federal via
Esip-documentation <esip-documentation at lists.esipfed.org> wrote:

>
> On 2014-05-23 9:45 AM, Anna Milan - NOAA Federal via Esip-documentation
> wrote:
>
> Howdy All,
> Is this the most appropriate way to describe flag_values, flag_meanings?
>
>    <attribute name="flag_values" value="0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7"/>
>     <attribute name="flag_meanings" value="One or more measurements are
> back filled from the spacecraft recorder, Packet time is in the future,
> Packet time is older than the threshold"/>
>
>
> Not exactly.
> The flag_values (and the flag variable) are usually an array of bytes, not
> a comma separated string.
> The flag_meanings need to be something like
> "One_or_more_measurements_are_back_filled_from_the_spacecraft_recorder
> Packet_time_is_in_the_future Packet_time_is_older_than_the_threshold".
> The number of flag_values must equal the number of flag_meanings.
>
> Those are terms from the CF standard. See
> http://cfconventions.org/1.6.html#flags for details.
>
> It might be better to direct future questions about them to the CF mailing
> list.
>
>   Thanks in advance....
>  Anna
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