Re: [CF-metadata] new standard names: day, night, and day/night terminator area_fractions

2014-01-08 Thread Randy Horne
Dear Jonathan: All the options identified so far all have pros and cons. I’ll take a crack at a summary-level recap …. (1) add a type of area fraction consistent with current definition of existing area_fraction (i.e.. day_area_fracton, night_area_fraction,

Re: [CF-metadata] new standard names: day, night, and day/night terminator area_fractions

2014-01-08 Thread rho...@excaliburlabs.com
Dear All: I made (at least) one mistake below. Option (3) requires separate variables for day, night, and terminator region because a variable has a single cell_methods attribute, and cell_methods is used to specify the areal extent. very respectfully, randy