I hadn't thought of that being necessary. On reflection, I don't really see a need to allow the parenthetical information to appear anywhere except at the end of any phrase specifying a method (but of course each method phrase could have parenthetical information, so multiple parenthetical statements could occur in cell_methods). Thus, in your example above you might have: ``time: mean where sea_ice (but only sampled when polar bears are on the ice in the immediate vicinity)``. As others have said, I think this is what we originally had in mind. It is too bad that for some CMIP6 data the checker throws an error, but I suspect that any other software currently reading CMIP6 files will not actually try to interpret information in parentheses, so perhaps we shouldn't be concerned.
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