Identification

Title

UDUNITS

Alternative title(s)

Unidata UDUNITS

Abstract

The UDUNITS package supports units of physical quantities. Its C library provides for arithmetic manipulation of units and for conversion of numeric values between compatible units. The package contains an extensive unit database, which is in XML format and user-extendable. The package also contains a command-line utility for investigating units and converting values.

Resource type

software

Resource locator

Unique resource identifier

code

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG:4326

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Software

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2017-10-06

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

East bounding longitude

North bounding latitude

South bounding latitude

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

End position

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2007-01-01

Frequency of update

asNeeded

Quality and validity

Lineage

Conformity

Data format

name of format

ZIP

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

UDUNITS License (BSD 3-clause derivative) https://github.com/Unidata/UDUNITS-2/blob/master/COPYRIGHT

Limitations on public access

None

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

Software Engineer/Programmer

organisation name

UCAR/UCP - Unidata

email address

support-udunits@unidata.ucar.edu

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

contact position

Software Engineer/Programmer

organisation name

UCAR/UCP - Unidata

telephone number

303-497-8679

email address

rmay@ucar.edu

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2018-03-27T23:23:27

Metadata language