Dear Vegard On further thought, I wonder whether the confidence_interval could be regarded as a cell_method, if it relates to a (collapsed) axis of realization?
Best wishes Jonathan On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 06:55:47PM +0000, Jonathan Gregory wrote: > Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 18:55:47 +0000 > From: Jonathan Gregory <[email protected]> > To: Vegard B??nes <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] standards for probabilities > User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) > > Dear Vegard > > Thanks for your email. Now I understand what you mean by confidence i.e. a > confidence level for a value which has uncertainty. I agree, this is like > other > uses for standard_name modifiers, in particular the standard_error modifier. > You need to link it to an extra dimension, and I suggest that the best way > to do this would be through a standard_name. For instance, define the > standard_name modifier of confidence_interval ("confidence" alone seems a bit > vague - that's why I didn't understand what you meant), and state that if > a variable has this modifier, it must have a coordinate variable or scalar > coordinate variable whose standard_name is confidence_level. Both the modifier > and the standard_name would be additions to CF. _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
