Dear Mark > > Do you mean "The expected length of the realization coordinate and > > dimension, if the whole ensemble *was* present"? I mean, is the whole > > ensemble present or not? I'm sorry, I'm not clear what you mean still. > > In my use case, the whole ensemble is not present, I only have a subset of > the members. I have a metadata element telling me how many members there were > at the time the ensemble was created, which I would like to encode.
Do you mean that the ensemble had an initial size of N, but that the ensemble dimension has since been reduced to M, where 1<=M<=N, by discarding some of the members? I wonder if anyone else has a use case like this. I agree that this is not the same as collapsing the dimension to M=1 using a cell_method, which is what I had thought you meant. Best wishes Jonathan _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
