[CF-metadata] convention for climatological time units

2013-01-07 Thread John Wilkin (IMCS)
Jonathan Gregory j.m.gregory at reading.ac.uk Sat Jan 5 06:48:34 MST 2013 Dear John The same section 7.4 of the CF standard describes the CF convention for this, which uses the bounds of the time coordinates to encode the range of years to which the data applies e.g. Examples 7.8 and 7.9. Is

Re: [CF-metadata] convention for climatological time units

2013-01-07 Thread Chris Barker - NOAA Federal
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 9:37 AM, John Wilkin (IMCS) jwil...@rutgers.edu wrote: But by main issue is that in Example 7.8 the time data entered in the file is still described as having units days since 1960-1-1 which really isn't so. It is equally logically days since 1991-1-1. In reality it's

Re: [CF-metadata] Proposal for new standard_names for biomass burning

2013-01-07 Thread Schultz, Martin
Dear Jonathan, Philip, good point! In practice, I think that expressed_as means something more general than contained in so that the NOx_expressed_as_NO2 case is a perfectly valid one. Indeed, that would be the standard_name that would be used if official inventories were to adopt CF for