Dear Karl, Thank you very much for checking this. Yes, the intention is to accumulate fluxes over the hour.
Regards, Alejandro > -----Original Message----- > From: CF-metadata [mailto:cf-metadata-boun...@cgd.ucar.edu] On Behalf Of > Karl Taylor > Sent: 10 February 2016 23:08 > To: cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu > Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] How to build CF-compliant monthly mean diurnal > cycles > > Dear Alejandro, > > I hope someone else will also check this, but I'm pretty sure you've > done it correctly. I would note that "time: mean within days time: mean > over days" implies in your example that fluxes are 1-hour mean amounts > averaged for each hour of the day over all days in the month. If you > aren't accumulating fluxes over the hour, but instead just sampling a > single time-step, then you should specify "time: point within days time: > mean over days". > > regards, > Karl > > On 2/10/16 7:56 AM, Bodas-Salcedo, Alejandro wrote: > > Dear CF community, > > > > I am trying to create a dataset that contains monthly mean diurnal cycles of > radiative fluxes (i.e. the average day of each month), but I am not sure how > to do > this in a CF-compliant way. Example 7.10 does this for one month (Section 7.4 > on > Climatological statistics), so it seems natural to extend this example. Will > the > following extension of Example 7.10 to two consecutive months be correct? > > > > Thanks for your help. > > > > Regards, > > > > Alejandro > > > > > > > > dimensions: > > time=48; > > nv=2; > > variables: > > float temperature(time,lat,lon); > > temperature:long_name="surface air temperature"; > > temperature:cell_methods="time: mean within days time: mean over days"; > > temperature:units="K"; > > double time(time); > > time:climatology="climatology_bounds"; > > time:units="hours since 1997-4-1"; > > double climatology_bounds(time,nv); > > data: // time coordinates translated to date/time format > > time="1997-4-1 0:30", "1997-4-1 1:30", ... "1997-4-1 23:30", "1997-5-1 > > 0:30", > "1997-5-1 1:30", ... "1997-5-1 23:30"; > > climatology_bounds="1997-4-1 0:00", "1997-4-30 1:00", > > "1997-4-1 1:00", "1997-4-30 2:00", > > ... > > "1997-4-1 23:00", "1997-5-1 0:00" ; > > "1997-5-1 0:00", "1997-5-31 1:00", > > "1997-5-1 1:00", "1997-5-31 2:00", > > ... > > "1997-5-1 23:00", "1997-5-31 0:00" ; > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CF-metadata mailing list > CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu > http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
