Global Attributes

Global Attributes

Attribute	Description	Example	Role	References
acknowledgment	Acknowledgement of funding agencies and sources used to produce the data	Funding provided by NOAA	required
comment	Additional information about the deployment not captured elsewhere. Typically includes deployment information including, but not limited to the deployment team, shoreside support, deploying boat, marine, etc.	Glider deployed by Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh aboard the R/V Furthr out of San Francisco, CA. Shoreside support provided by Dick Latvala	required
Conventions	Comma separated list of conventions followed in creation of the file	ACDD-1.3, CF-1.6	required	ACDD CF
contributor_name	First and last names of all persons contributing the production of the data set. Multiple contributor names may be specified with comma-separated list syntax	Jerry Garcia,Bob Weir,Phil Lesh,Mickey Hart,Bill Kreutzmann,Keith Godchaux,Ron McKernan,Dick Latvala	required
contributor_role	The role of any individuals or institutions that contributed to the creation of this data. Multiple contributors may be specified with comma-separated list syntax.	principalInvestigator,collaborator	required	NERC contributor roles
contributor_role_vocabulary	URL for the vocabulary used to describe contributor_role. Multiple contributors may be specified with comma-separated list syntax	https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/G04/current/	recommended	NERC contributor roles
creator_email
creator_institution
creator_name
date_created	ISO-8601 formatted date and time at which the file was created	1977-05-08T20:00:00UTC	required	ISO-8601 dates/times
date_issued	ISO-8601 formatted date and time at which the file was issued	1977-05-08T20:00:00UTC	recommended	ISO-8601 dates/times
date_modified	ISO-8601 formatted date and time at which the file was modified	1977-05-09T08:00:00UTC	recommended	ISO-8601 dates/times
history	Provides an audit trail for modifications to the original data. This is a string with one or more lines, each of which has an ISO-8601 formatted date/time and the name and command line parameters of the program used to create or change the data and/or other information about the change.	2014-07-21T00:00:00Z: /bin/writeIoosNc.py	required
id	A human readable unique identifier for data set. We recommend using the trajectory variable string name, which must have the following format: glider-YYYYmmddTHHMM where glider is the name of the glider and YYYYmmddTHHMM is the deployment date/time.	ru30-20140101T0000	required
institution	Institution(s) responsible for collecting the data. Multiple institutions may be specified with comma-separated syntax	Rutgers University,University of Delaware	required