Dear Daley This kind of construction is actually not possible at the moment in cell methods using "within" and "over". These are allowed only for times within the climatological day and climatological year, not for arbitrary intervals like two days. However coincidentally there is an existing proposal to extend the convention in a way which may meet your need. Please could you look at http://cf-trac.llnl.gov/trac/ticket/82 and see if it would? If so you could add your support there (you need a trac userid for that) or comment if not.
Best wishes Jonathan ----- Forwarded message from "Calvert, Daley" <daley.calv...@metoffice.gov.uk----- Date: Tue, 5 May 2015 16:55:13 +0000 From: "Calvert, Daley" <daley.calv...@metoffice.gov.uk> To: "'cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu'" <cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu> Subject: [CF-metadata] Use of "interval" in cell_methods to imply bounds of prior operations Hi all, I had sent this previously, but I was not registered to the mailing list at the time and I fear it may still be awaiting moderator approval. Apologies if this was in fact answered! Thanks, Daley From: Calvert, Daley Sent: 31 March 2015 16:27 To: 'cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu' Subject: Use of "interval" in cell_methods to imply bounds of prior operations Hi all, I am attempting to improve the compliance of output from an ocean model I/O server with the CF standard. In particular I am looking to improve the representation of time operations performed by the server, which can be applied up to two consecutive times for statistics such as "5-day mean daily maximum" and such forth. I would like to represent the cell_methods as generically as possible, listing the consecutive time operations and the frequency relating to the first time operation. For example, a 10-day mean of 2-day maxima might be written as: cell_methods = "time: maximum over days (interval: <timestep size>) time: mean over days (interval: 2 days) However I can't tell whether it is correct to use the interval comment to imply that the maximum has been calculated every two days prior to the 10 day mean. Any advice on this would be very welcome! Thanks, Daley Daley Calvert Ocean Scientist Met Office Hadley Centre Fitzroy Road Exeter Devon EX1 3PB United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)1392 885742 Email: daley.calv...@metoffice.gov.uk<mailto:daley.calv...@metoffice.gov.uk> Website: www.metoffice.gov.uk See our guide to climate change at http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate-change/guide/ _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata ----- End forwarded message ----- _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata