[CF-metadata] Usage of status flag as a standard name modifier

2015-05-05 Thread Jonathan Gregory
Dear Ajay We have discussed this before, I seem to recall, without reaching a conclusion about it. Yes, with the existing convention you can't use a modifier without a standard name. Is it possible you could devise and propose standard names for your data? Cheers Jonathan - Forwarded

Re: [CF-metadata] Is there ambiguity in labelling climatological time. Was: CF-metadata Digest, Vol 144, Issue 25

2015-05-05 Thread Jonathan Gregory
Dear all I agree with the view that we shouldn't be more restrictive about which year should be chosen for supplying climatological time coords. It is an arbitrary choice (in fact the coord is always arbitrary when the value applies to the entire cell, such as for a mean or a sum). The aim should

Re: [CF-metadata] Is there ambiguity in labelling climatological time. Was: CF-metadata Digest, Vol 144, Issue 25

2015-05-05 Thread Karl Taylor
Dear all, I agree with this view. Karl On 5/5/15 9:52 AM, Jonathan Gregory wrote: Dear all I agree with the view that we shouldn't be more restrictive about which year should be chosen for supplying climatological time coords. It is an arbitrary choice (in fact the coord is always arbitrary

Re: [CF-metadata] Usage of status flag as a standard name modifier

2015-05-05 Thread Randy Horne
Dear All: Please refer to trac item #74 (Allow sharing of ancillary variables among multiple data variables). This enhancement support handling data variables that do not have standard names. here are the final posts in this trac item …. Dear All: This post defines strawman redlines to