NetCDF Climate and Forecast (CF) Metadata Conventions as Attributes More information: http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/cms/eaton/cf-metadata/CF-1.0.html#att_app
Web documentation Version 1.0, 28 October 2003, accessed 2004-12-14
If present for a variable, this number is to be added to the data after it is read by an application. If both scale_factor and add_offset attributes are present, the data are first scaled before the offset is added.
Specifies which month is lengthened by a day in leap years for a user defined calendar.
Identifies latitude, longitude, vertical, or time axes.
Records the method used to derive data that represents cell values.
A value used to represent missing or undefined data.
Identifies auxiliary coordinate variables, label variables, and alternate coordinate variables.
Identifies a variable that contains closely associated data, e.g., the measurement uncertainties of instrument data.
Direction of increasing vertical coordinate value.
Specifies the length of each month in a non-leap year for a user defined calendar.
Smallest and largest valid values of a variable.
Name of the conventions followed by the dataset.
List of the applications that have modified the original data.
Identifies a variable that defines a grid mapping.
A value used to represent missing or undefined data (deprecated by the NUG).
A standard name that references a description of a variable's content in the standard name table.
References that describe the data or methods used to produce it.
the documentation says the domain should be coordinate_variable -- don't think that is right
Identifies variables that contain cell areas or volumes.
Records dimensions which have been compressed by gathering.
Miscellaneous information about the data or methods used to produce it.
Method of production of the original data.
Provides an example of a leap year for a user defined calendar. It is assumed that all years that differ from this year by a multiple of four are also leap years.
If a data variable with a standard_name modifier of standard_error has this attribute, it indicates that the values are the stated multiple of one standard error.
Identifies variables that correspond to the terms in a formula.
Use in conjunction with flag_values to provide descriptive words or phrases for each flag value. If multi-word phrases are used to describe the flag values, then the words within a phrase should be connected with underscores.
Provides a list of the flag values. Use in conjunction with flag_meanings.
If present for a variable, the data are to be multiplied by this factor after the data are read by an application See also the add_offset attribute.
A descriptive name that indicates a variable's content. This name is not standardized.