File specific actions

checksit has some specific actions depending on the file given.

NCAS-GENERAL

Files that are designed to the NCAS-GENERAL standard are recognised by checksit, and specs referring to the correct version of the standard are automatically searched for and used by checksit, with specs to include checking file name format, global attributes, dimensions and variables for the used deployment mode and data product. For example, for a file with data from an automatic weather station (ncas-aws-10) using version 2.0.0 of the standard,

checksit check ncas-aws-10_iao_20231117_surface-met_v1.0.nc

is the same as

checksit check -t off -s ncas-amof-2.0.0/amof-file-name,ncas-amof-2.0.0/amof-common-land,ncas-amof-2.0.0/amof-surface-met,ncas-amof-2.0.0/amof-global-attrs ncas-aws-10_iao_20231117_surface-met_v1.0.nc

NCAS-IMAGE

The NCAS-IMAGE standard is also identified by checksit, and the appropriate specs can be found to check both global tags and photo or plot specific tags, i.e.

checksit check ncas-cam-9_cao_20231117_photo_v1.0.nc

is the same as

checksit check -t off -s ncas-image-1.0.0/amof-image-global-attrs,ncas-image-1.0.0/amof-photo ncas-cam-9_cao_20231117_photo_v1.0.nc

NCAS-Radar

The NCAS-Radar standard is also recognised by checksit, with the correct specs identified and used if no template or spec options are specified. Unlike the NCAS-GENERAL and NCAS-IMAGE standards, NCAS-Radar does not have specific data product specs, instead there are a number of different spec files covering different areas of the standard. These spec files are:

coordinate-variables
dimensions
global-attrs
global-variables
instrument-parameters
location-variables
moment-variables
radar-calibration
radar-parameters
sensor-pointing-variables
sweep-variables