Re: [CF-metadata] Is there a convention defining day offsets to use for monthly average time series?

2011-08-10 Thread John Caron
On 8/8/2011 3:43 PM, Jim Biard wrote: Hi. I have a time series of monthly averaged values. I have an integer-valued time coordinate variable and an associated time_bounds variable. Is it correct to use the 15th of February and the 16th of all the other months for my time centers, or should

Re: [CF-metadata] the need to store lat/lon coordinates in a CF metadata compliant netCDF file

2011-08-10 Thread John Caron
On 7/26/2011 4:24 AM, Jonathan Gregory wrote: Dear all For datasets which are intended for analysis by end-users I think it would be undesirable to remove the requirement of providing explicit lat and lon coords even if a grid_mapping is provided. I think it is unrealistic to expect all

Re: [CF-metadata] Is there a convention defining day offsets to use for monthly average time series?

2011-08-10 Thread Jim Biard
I like that! Beepers. Very retro-chic! I say we go for it! On 8/10/2011 8:31 AM, John Caron wrote: On 8/8/2011 3:43 PM, Jim Biard wrote: Hi. I have a time series of monthly averaged values. I have an integer-valued time coordinate variable and an associated time_bounds variable. Is it