Change Long Name (not the longname-attribute) of a variable
Added by Marvin Heidkamp almost 10 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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Replies (2)
RE: Change Long Name (not the longname-attribute) of a variable - Added by Ralf Mueller almost 10 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 almost 10 years ago
Hello Ralf,
Thanks a lot!