ncchecker - netCDF Compliance Checker
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Copyright
Copyright © 2023-present Charlie Zender
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Description
ncchecker checks files for compliance with best practices rules and recommendations from various data and
metadata standards bodies. These include the Climate & Forecast (CF) Metadata Conventions and the NASA
Dataset Interoperability Working Group (DIWG) recommendations. It reads input-files from stdin, or the
command, performs checks requested in the tests option, if any (otherwise it performs all tests), and
writes the results to stdout. Some standard NCO options are supported, including increasing the
verbosity level with [-D dbg_lvl], excluding variables with [-x] variable subsetting with [-v var_lst],
and printing the version with [--version]. The output contains counts of the location and number of
failed tests, or prints "SUCCESS" for tests with no failures.
Homepage
The NCO homepage at <http://nco.sf.net> contains more information.
NCCHECKER(1)
Name
ncchecker - netCDF Compliance Checker
Reporting Bugs
Report bugs to <http://sf.net/bugs/?group_id=3331>.
See Also
The full documentation for NCO is maintained as a Texinfo manual called the NCOUsersGuide. Because NCO
is mathematical in nature, the documentation includes TeX-intensive portions not viewable on character-
based displays. Hence the only complete and authoritative versions of the NCOUsersGuide are the PDF
(recommended), DVI, and Postscript versions at <http://nco.sf.net/nco.pdf>, <http://nco.sf.net/nco.dvi>,
and <http://nco.sf.net/nco.ps>, respectively. HTML and XML versions are available at
<http://nco.sf.net/nco.html> and <http://nco.sf.net/nco.xml>, respectively.
If the info and NCO programs are properly installed at your site, the command
infonco
should give you access to the complete manual, except for the TeX-intensive portions.
ncap(1), ncap2(1), ncatted(1), ncbo(1), ncclimo(1), nces(1), ncecat(1), ncflint(1), ncz2psx(1), ncks(1),
nco(1), ncpdq(1), ncra(1), ncrcat(1), ncremap(1), ncrename(1), ncwa(1)
Syntax
ncchecker [-d dbg_lvl] [-i drc_in] [--tests= tst_lst] [-x] [-v var_lst] [--version ] input-files