[CF-metadata] [CF Metadata] CF trac ticket summary update

2015-05-12 Thread David Hassell
Hello, The summary of CF Metadata Trac tickets has been updated for the 12th May 2015. (http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/~david/cf_trac_summary.html). This page is also linked from the CF home page (http://cfconventions.org/). Currently: 30 tickets have been accepted [green] 5 ticket are in active

Re: [CF-metadata] How to define time coordinate in GPS?

2015-05-12 Thread Jonathan Gregory
Dear Jim, Chris, Ben I haven't copied the whole of the email thread this time because it's getting so long. See http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/pipermail/cf-metadata/2015/058150.html if you want to read it all. I agree with Chris, and I am puzzled by Jim's view on his point 3. I think that the

Re: [CF-metadata] New standard name request for FAPAR

2015-05-12 Thread alison.pamment
Dear Martin, Indeed, the quoted spectral region of 300 - 700 nm does come from the definition text of surface_downwelling_photosynthetic_radiative_flux_absorbed_by_vegetation. I am uncertain of the origin of this particular piece of text. I have done a brief online search on photosynthetic

Re: [CF-metadata] How to define time coordinate in GPS?

2015-05-12 Thread Chris Barker
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Jim Biard jbi...@cicsnc.org wrote: I agree that in many cases the implications of mistakes in which calendar and/or time system was used when creating or using a given file are often negligible. there is that...but that wasn't my only point. This is one