Hi Jim,
I considered that, but doesn't that indicate to someone who isn't
already aware of the actual time-period covered that data was used
starting 2000-12-01 and ending in 2010-03-01, even though data from the
months 2000-01 and 2000-02 and 2010-12 also were included in computing
the climatologies?
best regards,
Karl
On 2/11/16 10:15 AM, Jim Biard wrote:
Karl,
I think you should be able to handle this in the bounds variable. If
you write the first entry as "2000-12-1", "2010-03-01", doesn't that
describe things correctly?
Grace and peace,
Jim
On 2/10/16 6:37 PM, Karl Taylor wrote:
Dear CF community,
In representing the seasonal climatology based on data available for
the period January 1, 2000 through December 31 2010, what would be
the correct climatology_bounds?
climatology_bounds = "1999-12-1", "2011-3-1",
"2000-3-1", "2010-6-1",
"2000-6-1", "2010-9-1",
"2000-9-1", "2010-12-1" ????
I would note that this seems to capture the idea that we are
reporting seasonal means, but it also seems to indicate that this is
based in part on data from Dec. 1999 and Jan.-Feb. 2011, when it
isn't. Is this the best I can do? [Of course the convention can
never tell us if data are complete in forming a climatology. If 1
year were missing, this would not affect the attributes.]
I suppose the in the cell_methods attribute ("time: mean over days
time: mean over years" I could add non-standardized information (as
permitted by CF), for example: "time: mean over days time: mean
over years (with data from the period 2000-1-1 to 2011-1-1)"
thanks for any suggestions,
Karl
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