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Constructed dimension and variable names change based on service used

Open lesserwhirls opened this issue 6 years ago • 0 comments

In our GRIB collections, the dimension and variable names change based on the service used for access. For example, take a look at the GFS 0.5 Degree output on thredds-test.

Using the OPeNDAP or NCML service, we get dimensions lat, lon, and variables lat, lon:

OPeNDAP NCML

However, if we look at the same dataset through NCSS, we get latitude, longitude for both dimensions and variables:

NCSS

Now the nice thing is they are consistent, and any coordinates attribute in the variables uses the correct name. However, these variables are generated by netCDF-java, so it would be nice if they were consistent in naming (btw - 4.6.x uses the lat/lon variety, so the path of least surprise for end-users would be to keep to that) . I'm guessing it is probably something down in the Coverage, but I'm not sure, because the naming should be handled in the grib module. Any thoughts @cwardgar?

lesserwhirls avatar Apr 16 '18 22:04 lesserwhirls