Dear Roy and Christophe,
As Roy says, we usually use SI units for the canonical unit in the standard
name table. There are a few exceptions, for example, age_of_sea_ice has units
of year and age_of_surface_snow has units of day, whereas the SI unit for both
quantities would be the second.
Hi Alison,
A technical solution could be found, but I would be more comfortable with a
universally understandable canonical unit that didn't enforce a particular
scaling.
Cheers, Roy.
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On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Signell, Richard rsign...@usgs.gov wrote:
We proposed these changes to the UGRID group and didn't hear any
squawking, so I imagine we'll go ahead an implement them.
The UGRID group has been pretty silent about, well, everything, so I'm
not sure that means much.
Thanks Alex and Jeff - sorry, I'm not clear on how you plan to proceed.
Is the following an acceptable plan?
Create a separate version now for GridSpec, so that it is not versioned
in lockstep
with the rest of CF.
Create a fixed (non-wiki) specification document for this version of
In the last 2 years alone, I've encountered a number of datasets ranging
from reanalysis to climatologies to current ocean models that do utilize
date from 1-1-1. While I agree that ISO8601 is probably a better system,
it's not the one a lot of applications used when they were written. I think
Steve, I agree that solutions may be different in the near term and long
term,
that seems reasonable - and Alex, I understand about coordinating with Jeff.
I still worry about maintaining versions on a wiki ... I think to work in
practice it would need to be set up with some attention to
