Re: [CF-metadata] Persistent identifiers

2019-06-27 Thread Bryan Lawrence
sure the current CF github issue< > https://github.com/cf-convention/cf-conventions/issues/160> is the best > place for it, so I thought I'd attempt to move it to the listserv. > > Disclaimer: I still think ACDD is the best place to address adding any > persistent identifi

Re: [CF-metadata] CF Metadata Mailing List Archives

2015-04-21 Thread Bryan Lawrence
> > Tel : +44 118 3785613 > E-mail: d.c.hass...@reading.ac.uk<mailto:d.c.hass...@reading.ac.uk> > ___ > CF-metadata mailing list > CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu<mailto:CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu> > http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mai

[CF-metadata] Status of CF 1.7 (context for CF 2)?

2014-10-10 Thread Bryan Lawrence
em together. It > >> will be a collaborative document where anyone can write (add your name > to > >> your edits perhaps?) At some point we will probably transition to a > >> collection of documents in the repo. > >> > >> Anyway, we can get started and ref

Re: [CF-metadata] Is LLNL having troubles?

2014-04-03 Thread Bryan Lawrence
* > * Nan GalbraithInformation Systems Specialist * > * Upper Ocean Processes Group Mail Stop 29 * > * Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution* > * Woods Hole, MA 02543 (508) 289-2444 * > *** > > > > > --

Re: [CF-metadata] Editing/publishing workflow

2014-03-11 Thread Bryan Lawrence
Benevolent Dictator of Iris - a CF library for Python: > >> www.scitools.org.uk/iris > >> Met Office FitzRoy Road Exeter Devon EX1 3PB United Kingdom > >> Tel: +44 (0)1392 885702 > >> Email: richard.hatters...@metoffice.gov.uk Web: www.metoffice.gov.uk > &g

Re: [CF-metadata] CF upgrade to netCDF variable names

2014-01-13 Thread Bryan Lawrence
-- > John Graybeal > Sr. Data Manager, Metadata & Semantics > > M +1 408 675-5445 > skype: graybealski > Marinexplore > 920 Stewart Drive > Sunnyvale 94085 > California, USA > www.marinexplore.com<http://marinexplore.com> > > > -- > Scan

Re: [CF-metadata] Can we please close ticket 93 and modify the latest CF document accordingly?

2013-09-28 Thread Bryan Lawrence
Woods Hole, MA 02543-1598 > >> ___ > >> CF-metadata mailing list > >> CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu > >> http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata > > > > - End forwarded message --

Re: [CF-metadata] Are ensembles a compelling use case for "group-aware" metadata? (CZ)

2013-09-20 Thread Bryan Lawrence
t; 52425 Juelich > Sitz der Gesellschaft: Juelich > Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts Dueren Nr. HR B 3498 > Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: MinDir Dr. Karl Eugen Huthmacher > Geschaeftsfuehrung: Prof. Dr. Achim Bachem (Vorsitzender), > Karsten Beneke (stellv. Vorsitzender), P

Re: [CF-metadata] Are ensembles a compelling use case for "group-aware" metadata?

2013-09-20 Thread Bryan Lawrence
"Historical"; > :Model = "CESM"; > :Realization = "1"; > > dimensions: > time=4; > variables: > float tas(time); > data: > tas=272.1,272.1,272.1,272.1; > > } // cesm_01 > > group

Re: [CF-metadata] Towards recognizing and exploiting hierarchical groups (Charlie Zender - Steve Hankin - Richard Signell)

2013-09-18 Thread Bryan Lawrence
;; > :Scenario = "RCP 8.5"; > > group: cesm { > dimensions: > time=unlimited; > variables: > float tas(time); > :Model = "CESM"; > data: > tas=272,272,272,272; > } // end cesm > > group: ecmwf { > dimensions: >

Re: [CF-metadata] Towards recognizing and exploiting hierarchical groups (Charlie Zender - Steve Hankin - Richard Signell)

2013-09-17 Thread Bryan Lawrence
oup. > > > > --Russ > > ___ > > CF-metadata mailing list > > CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu > > http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata > > > > -- > Charlie Zender, Earth System Sci. & Compu

Re: [CF-metadata] New standard name: datetime_iso8601

2013-03-19 Thread Bryan Lawrence
storically had an unfortunate dependence on the udunits reference library for date parsing. We are slowly unwinding that dependence. I think in this case widening the allowed encoding for datetimes is well worth the complication. Regards, John _______ CF-

Re: [CF-metadata] Another potentially useful extension to the standard_name table

2012-09-18 Thread Bryan Lawrence
Hi Roy I'd vote for having the discussion about setting up a project to deliver this "on list" ... Cheers Bryan > > Hello Robert, > > To my mind, data modelling of standard names should be based on the type of > approach you've been advocating. > > Good point concerning expressions of int

Re: [CF-metadata] identification of vector components

2012-04-19 Thread Bryan Lawrence
> it is not > > I suspect there are other datasets created where x may mean east. > > I feel it is a better compromise to allow x to mean east and encourage data > consumers to be careful in interpreting vector components. I believe that > https://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/tra

Re: [CF-metadata] identification of vector components

2012-04-18 Thread Bryan Lawrence
__ > 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.

Re: [CF-metadata] Question on WKT representation of CRS (Bentley, Philip)

2011-10-05 Thread Bryan Lawrence
ings taken from > WGS84 locations without any transformation. So the datum is > somewhat ill-defined in the first place. Would having WKT > available for these cases imply a misleading level of > specificity? > > Cheers, > > --Seth > >

Re: [CF-metadata] Standard names for Martian climate model data

2011-01-31 Thread Bryan Lawrence
rford Appleton Laboratory Email: > > alison.pamm...@stfc.ac.uk R25, 2.22 > > Harwell Oxford, Didcot, OX11 0QX, U.K. > > John Graybeal <mailto:jgrayb...@ucsd.edu> > phone: 858-534-2162 > System Development Manager > Ocean Observatories Initiative Cyberinfrastructure Project: > http://ci.oceanobservatories.o

Re: [CF-metadata] CF data model

2011-01-12 Thread Bryan Lawrence
t for me, that would depend on the complete convergence of the logical properties of CSML and CDM). Cheers Bryan -- Bryan Lawrence Director of Environmental Archival and Associated Research (NCAS/British Atmospheric Data Centre and NCEO/NERC NEODC) STFC, Rutherford Apple

Re: [CF-metadata] Web reference to a standard name?

2010-12-16 Thread Bryan Lawrence
gt; work, but there's some back-office re-engineering that needs to be > done first. > > Cheers, Roy. > > From: cf-metadata-boun...@cgd.ucar.edu > [mailto:cf-metadata-boun...@cgd.ucar.edu] On Behalf Of Benno > Blumenthal Sent: 15 December 2010 22:23 > To: Bryan Lawrence > Cc: J

Re: [CF-metadata] Web reference to a standard name?

2010-12-15 Thread Bryan Lawrence
team that wants to play with > us on the 'simple matter of programming' part, that would be a > collaboration we'd be happy to encourage. > > John > > On Dec 14, 2010, at 08:16, Steve Hankin wrote: > > I second that thought. > > > > On 12/1

Re: [CF-metadata] Web reference to a standard name?

2010-12-14 Thread Bryan Lawrence
> > International Research Institute for climate and society > > The Earth Institute at Columbia University > > Lamont Campus, Palisades NY 10964-8000 (845) 680-4450 > > > > ___ > > CF-metadata mailing list > > CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu <mailto:CF-metadata@cgd.

Re: [CF-metadata] Codification of climatological variable "diurnaltemperature range"

2010-11-22 Thread Bryan Lawrence
> > this - we > > might call it the extent/magnitude/size (any better ideas?) of the > > range to > > make clear it is just one number. I wonder what others think. > > > > Best wishes > > > > Jonathan > >

Re: [CF-metadata] point observation data in CF 1.4

2010-10-18 Thread Bryan Lawrence
s to represent similar things and file size. The question > >> that I'd be inclined to ask of Ute and Rich would be a judgment > >> call on the cost in file size that would result from filling > >> missing values at the start/end of each individual trajectory. > >

Re: [CF-metadata] standard_name for coordinate variable corresponding to complex parts (real and imaginary)

2010-07-08 Thread Bryan Lawrence
time, and a coordinate of, say, reciprocal_of_longitude. > > Best wishes > > Jonathan > ___ > CF-metadata mailing list > CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu > http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata > -- Bryan Lawrence

Re: [CF-metadata] standard_name for coordinate variable corresponding to complex parts (real and imaginary)

2010-06-28 Thread Bryan Lawrence
Cheers Bryan On Friday 25 Jun 2010 21:52:52 Benno Blumenthal wrote: > Hi Bryan, > > Thanks for chiming in -- your comments are quite helpful. > > As for > > On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 6:45 AM, Bryan Lawrence > > wrote: > > However, despite the discussion thus far,

Re: [CF-metadata] standard_name for coordinate variable corresponding to complex parts (real and imaginary)

2010-06-24 Thread Bryan Lawrence
e the guidelines > for construction of standard names. > > Best wishes > > Jonathan > ___ > CF-metadata mailing list > CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu > http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata > -- Bryan Lawrenc

Re: [CF-metadata] Questions on cell boundaries

2010-02-19 Thread Bryan Lawrence
t proposed your "slight > modification"? I am all ears :-) > > Thomas > > - "Bryan Lawrence" wrote: > > > Hi Nan > > > > ... but you couldn't plot this properly because you don't know that > > it's an el

Re: [CF-metadata] Questions on cell boundaries

2010-02-19 Thread Bryan Lawrence
t; still perfectly hold. > >>> > >>> One example of such a dataset would be one where at each grid location > >>> we report the mean/minimum/maximum temperature or pressure recorded by > >>> any station found in a radius of, say, 30 km around the central > >>> poi

Re: [CF-metadata] Questions on cell boundaries

2010-02-18 Thread Bryan Lawrence
> point. > > > > Another example is satellite data in swath projection where each > > record is associated to a Field Of View, which is often approximated > > as a an ellipse. > > > > Did someone give it a thought already? >

Re: [CF-metadata] Some questions about 360-day calendars

2010-02-04 Thread Bryan Lawrence
ing), even in a 365 day model, there is no meaningful comparison between a prediction at tzero plus a few weeks and the actual day ... it's statistics all the way ... so that's a long way of saying there is no reason for such a conversion beyond month and year, and then only for statistical co

Re: [CF-metadata] seeking CF name for total water column height

2010-01-29 Thread Bryan Lawrence
(& intensivity/extensivity etc) implicit in the measurement/simulation ... Bryan -- Bryan Lawrence Director of Environmental Archival and Associated Research (NCAS/British Atmospheric Data Centre and NCEO/NERC NEODC) STFC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Phone +44 1235 445012;

Re: [CF-metadata] Swath observational data

2009-11-19 Thread Bryan Lawrence
on where the packaging has had to be broken (which might occur for performance reasons or ...) CF could recommend something like this ... Bryan -- Bryan Lawrence Director of Environmental Archival and Associated Research (NCAS/British Atmospheric Data Centre and NCEO/NERC NEODC) STFC, Ru

Re: [CF-metadata] Dealing with large numbers of flag valuesinnetcdf cf

2009-10-27 Thread Bryan Lawrence
ata indefinitely, and I'm relying on vocabulary servers ... (and in particular, Roy's ... ) somehow we will persist the vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk address, regardless of nerc's future, and of ndg's future, although if ac.uk went away we might be in trouble :-). Cheers Bryan -- Bryan La

Re: [CF-metadata] Standard names for Glaciology and ice-sheet modeling: land_ice, sea_ice, floating_ice, ice shelves...

2009-09-29 Thread Bryan Lawrence
ed them. Without knowing the details I don't like the sound of "redefining". Would there be cases of existing data marked up with land_ice which would fall foul of such a change? Bryan -- Bryan Lawrence Director of Environmental Archival and Associated Research (NCAS/British Atmo

Re: [CF-metadata] standard name for position (CMIP5 Issue)

2009-09-16 Thread Bryan Lawrence
s in offline email, this is of some interest to me for a number of reasons.) Bryan > > Cheers, > > Alejandro > > On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 09:49 +0100, Bryan Lawrence wrote: > > Hi Alejandro > > > > > This is going to be used as the horizontal > > > dimen

Re: [CF-metadata] standard name for position

2009-09-16 Thread Bryan Lawrence
ata mailing list > CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu > http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata > -- Bryan Lawrence Director of Environmental Archival and Associated Research (NCAS/British Atmospheric Data Centre and NCEO/NERC NEODC) STFC, Rutherford Appleton

Re: [CF-metadata] Standard name definitions ... are these formal or flexible

2009-07-29 Thread Bryan Lawrence
x27;t neeed to be marked up with it, that'd be implicit in the relationships that we standardise. That seems like an obvious goal ... Bryan -- Bryan Lawrence Director of Environmental Archival and Associated Research (NCAS/British Atmospheric Data Centre and NCEO/NERC NEODC) STFC, Ruthe

Re: [CF-metadata] Standard name definitions ... are these formal or flexible

2009-07-28 Thread Bryan Lawrence
> Fax: +44 (0)1752 772 227 > > Derriford, Plymouth, PL6 8BY > sems...@argans.co.uk <mailto:sems...@argans.co.uk> > > > Skype(tm): archonsme > > -

Re: [CF-metadata] Proposal for new standard names

2009-02-17 Thread Bryan Lawrence
or CMIP5 are very different from CMIP3, I'm > not sure if these cases can be easily handled in CMIP5. I'm forwarding > you another e-mail regarding this so that you have more information. > > Regards, > > Alejandro > > > > > On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 09:3

Re: [CF-metadata] Proposal for new standard names

2009-02-17 Thread Bryan Lawrence
s are intended to > > > name geophysical quantities. If ISCCP is estimating geophysical > > > quantities, > > > they do not need isccp in their names. For instance, we don't have a > > > quantity > > > called hadisst_sea_surface_temperature. Th

Re: [CF-metadata] a different (but perhaps unoriginal) approach to standard name construction

2008-11-03 Thread Bryan Lawrence
andard Names > to parse using a grammar based on them. If there is a more extensive > set of rules for constructting names, I'd be happy to try extending my > grammar to include these. > > Cheers, > Robert > -- Bryan Lawrence Director of Environmental Archival and

Re: [CF-metadata] a different (but perhaps unoriginal) approach to standard name construction

2008-11-03 Thread Bryan Lawrence
; labels for that coordinate. This allows us to store many different > tendencies in a single variable, but allows us to identify each of them > through the "process" dimension of that variable. (or any other sub-part of a variable). I think we might need to look further into

Re: [CF-metadata] CF standard names for chemical constitu ents and aerosols (resulting from a GRIB2 p

2008-10-20 Thread Bryan Lawrence
> >> data: > >> constituent='ozone'; > >> > >> The list of valid constituent or aerosol could be SMILES, IUPAC or CAS. > >> Or the CF community build up > >> such list. > >> > >> This is the same system Marti

Re: [CF-metadata] Standardized region names

2008-08-22 Thread Bryan Lawrence
; > > > Hi all, > > > > I just noticed the list of standardized region names on the CF > > website. Is there a list of standard lat-lon boxes (or polygons) that > > match the entries in this list? > > > > Cheers, Jon -- Bryan Lawrence Direc