CF has standard names forecast_reference_time, forecast_period and time which are interrelated in a particular way.
I have a trajectory dataset which also has reference_time, period, and time which are interrelated in the same way, but forecast is not an appropriate descriptor: the reference_time is the start of the trajectory, the period is the time relative to the start_time along the trajectory. I am wondering how important "forecast" is in the semantics of these particular standard_names -- does it really have to be a forecast? After all, these are the standard names for the time coordinates, e.g. independent variables, while forecast is a property of the dependent variables, i.e. how they were computed. Do we need more general names? Am I taking the current names too literally? -- Dr. M. Benno Blumenthal [email protected] International Research Institute for climate and society The Earth Institute at Columbia University Lamont Campus, Palisades NY 10964-8000 (845) 680-4450 _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
