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Change Long Name (not the longname-attribute) of a variable

Added by Marvin Heidkamp about 8 years ago

Hello CDO-Support-Team,

I do know that CDO is designed to handle data variables and is not meant to be a complete replacement of nco tools. So I set the longname attribute of a variable (e.g. precipitation) with ncatted:

ncatted -a longname,precip,o,c,"precipitation" precip.nc

Now, I can see the modification with ncdump -h

But my problem is that the Long Name is not displayed neither using ncview nor using panoply (like you can see in the following images)

Is there a way to adapt not only the attribute longname but also the Long Name itself when displaying it with the above mentioned programs?

Thank you in advance!

Sincere regards,

Marvin


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RE: Change Long Name (not the longname-attribute) of a variable - Added by Ralf Mueller about 8 years ago

The CF-Convention standardize the attribute standard_name: http://cfconventions.org/faq.html#stdnames_official
And according to CF the longname attribute should be used as long_name instead.

RE: Change Long Name (not the longname-attribute) of a variable - Added by Marvin Heidkamp about 8 years ago

Hello Ralf,
Thanks a lot!

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