Re: long units description

[Steve Hankin <hankin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Keith,

The 24 character limit comes from Ferret. I do not believe that COARDS
specified anything regarding the length of the units string.

Note:
 1. It will have minimal effect on Ferret's ability to function
correctly
 2. The limit hass already been raised to 48 characters in the V5 BETA
versions
 3. Although the units text string gets truncated to 24 characters on
output plots it is easy to modify with the normal plot labelling
commands. 

	- steve

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Keith Lindsay wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> When loading some of my netCDF files, I get the following message :
> 
>  *** NOTE: attribute truncated: "units" in netCDF variable: CFC12
>  Maximum characters:   24
> 
> Is the limitation of 24 characters for a unit attribute part of COARDS? I
> have not been able to find it documented in the COARDS standard.
> 
> Is there a way to get around this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Keith
> 
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