System unit defaults

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TJS
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System unit defaults

Post by TJS »

Hello,

I'm not sure what I'm requesting, but wanted to share a recent confusing situation with McIDAS-V.

We brought in a (GOES-R) Land Surface Temperature field and a Sea Surface Temperature field, both via netcdf. In the files, both have units of K.

Yet, the sst was displayed in C, since a (non-editable) system file says basically "if sst, then C units". Now, I could work around this but putting in an entry in my user properties, but that won't help others in the same situation.

I guess one idea is to pop up a dialogue box (which could be turned off) when the system is over-riding the units in the file.

Thanks,
Tim

Tools->Parameters->Defaults
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jayh
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Re: System unit defaults

Post by jayh »

Hi Tim-

Thanks for the report. I see this with the GOES-R ABI SST files we have in our testing data as well.

I've written inq. 2369 for evaluation for this behavior.

You can also on a per display basis change the unit in the Layer Controls from Edit -> Change Display Unit

Thanks, Jay
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