 are present, the data are first scaled before the offset is added. The attributes scale_factor and add_offset can be used together to provide simple data compression to store low-resolution floating-point data as small integers in a netCDF file. When scaled data are written, the application should first subtract the offset and then divide by the scale factor.<br />
	The NOAA cooperative standard is more restrictive than the netCDF Users Guide with respect to the use of the scale_factor and add_offset attri