Um, I don't think that's true, actually. That's probably a sensible convention to follow in many cases, but I don't believe it's a CF requirement. (Or at least, I never noticed it. If it is in there, we need to edit the spec to make it more prominent!)
Cheers, --Seth On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 08:28:08 -0400 Jim Biard <[email protected]> wrote: >Andreas, > >The other thing to keep in mind regarding the time bounds (and other bounds >variables, such as for X and Y or longitude and latitude) is that the upper >bound is exclusive. The upper bound value is greater than the values in the >interval. > >Grace and peace, > >Jim > >Jim Biard >Research Scholar >Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites >Remote Sensing and Applications Division >National Climatic Data Center >151 Patton Ave, Asheville, NC 28801-5001 > >[email protected] >828-271-4900 > >On Mar 15, 2013, at 5:45 PM, Andreas Hilboll <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I want to store monthly averages of gridded satellite measurements of >> atmospheric trace gas columns. I'm wondering how I should specify the >> time axis, i.e. set the time for each monthly aggregate to the first, or >> the central, or the last day of the month. How should I specify that the >> values are actually monthly averages? >> >> Thanks for your ideas! >> Cheers, Andreas. >> _______________________________________________ >> CF-metadata mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata > _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
