Dear Jonathan:
Your recommendation of changing the cell method name from the
standard_name to area is analogous to the recommendation you provided me
at the start of this message thread.
In para 7.3.4 (Cell methods when there are no coordinates). the first
sentence is:
To provide an
Dear Randy
The usual choice would be the standard_name to refer to variation over an
axis for which there is no netCDF dimension. area is provided as a special
shorthand for the *combination* of horizontal axes. The advantage of it is that
you don't have specify what these might be e.g. longitude
Jonathan,
Regarding using area vs latitude or longitude, I was following the third
paragraph of section 7.3.4:
… For longitude, the domain is indicated according to this provision by the
string longitude (rather than the name of a longitude coordinate variable),
and this implies that the
Dear Jim
Regarding using area vs latitude or longitude, I was following the third
paragraph of section 7.3.4:
? For longitude, the domain is indicated according to this provision by the
string longitude (rather than the name of a longitude coordinate variable),
and this implies that the
All:
Are we considering the following standard name final for the effective cloud
height parameter we had been discussing? I have not heard any dissent in
recent weeks and I need to get this integrated into my files ASAP.
Kris
From: Bedka, Kristopher
