Dear Ajay You could record this informally in the cell_methods e.g. time: mean (few observations before the mid-20th century)"
Cheers Jonathan ----- Forwarded message from Ajay Krishnan - NOAA Affiliate <[email protected]> ----- > Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 14:53:23 -0400 > From: Ajay Krishnan - NOAA Affiliate <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [CF-metadata] Climatological bounds for oxygen and other ocean > nutrients > > Hello CF Folks, > > What is the CF guidance for climatological bounds when the statistics being > generated are from data that are not uniformly spaced? > > We're developing a climatology for nutrients such as dissolved oxygen, > nitrate, phosphate and silicate. > These make use of sparse observations from as early as the late 1800s. Up > until the mid 1900s the number of observations have been few and spaced > out. Since then there has been a big spike in the number of nutrient > observations. > > Since old observations are important, we would like to use them in > generating stats and deriving climatologies. > At the same time having climatological bounds beginning at 1875-01-01, > gives a false sense of the scope/ temporal extent of the climatology. Is > there a way to capture this information in either the bounds/ stats > variable? > > Thank you!! > > -Ajay > -- > > *Ajay Krishnan* > Geospatial Data Developer | Science & Technology Corporation > <http://stcnet.com/> - Federal Government Contractor > NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) > SSMC3 - 1315 East West Hwy Silver Spring MD 20910 > <https://goo.gl/maps/ovow9dP4nhE2> > [email protected] > Phone: 301-713-4864 <(301)%20713-4864> > Customer Support: 1-301-713-3277 or [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > CF-metadata mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata ----- End forwarded message ----- _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
