act.qc.QCFilter.update_ancillary_variable¶
- QCFilter.update_ancillary_variable(var_name, qc_var_name=None)[source]¶
Method to check if ancillary_variables variable attribute is set with quality control variable name.
- Parameters:
var_name (str) – Data variable name.
qc_var_name (str) – quality control variable name. If not given will attempt to get the name from data variable ancillary_variables attribute.
Examples
from act.tests import EXAMPLE_AOSMET from act.io.arm import read_arm_netcdf ds = read_arm_netcdf(EXAMPLE_AOSMET) var_name = 'temperature_ambient' qc_var_name = ds.qcfilter.create_qc_variable(var_name) del ds[var_name].attrs['ancillary_variables'] ds.qcfilter.update_ancillary_variable(var_name, qc_var_name) print(ds[var_name].attrs['ancillary_variables'])