The current release writes output files as filename.nc. The GDAC requests files named as either filename_rt.nc or filename_deployed.nc. A nice addition to dba_to_ngdac_profile_nc.py would be the assumption of either _rt or _delayed as the default (probably _rt) and a command line arg such as -rt or -del to swap to the other naming convention. This would avoid users having to rename all the .nc files after they've been created. Thanks!

Currently the user is unable to specify a _FillValue for each sensor/variable in sensor_defs.json. Rather the values are taken as from the defaults in:

from netCDF4 import default_fillvals as NC_FILL_VALUES

It would increase scalability if the user was able to specify a _FillValue (or missing_value) via the sensor_defs.json as:

variable: {
    "_FillValue": NaN
}

I tried to work with the plot_dba_yo.py. One of the paths at the beginning needed updated, gncutils.reader.dba doesn’t exist, the code needs to import create_llat_dba which is found in the gncutils.readers.slocum.
original => "from gncutils.readers.dba import create_llat_dba_reader"
corrected =>from gncutils.readers.slocum import create_llat_dba_reader

There isn't any info on the wiki about the code like with the spt vis. I was hoping someone might have some suggestions for executing the python code.