Dear Jonathan,
Can I ask why the forecast time definition is not being included in this
release of CF?
Kind regards,
Ag
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Gregory [mailto:j.m.gregory at reading.ac.uk]
> Sent: 14 September 2003 07:45
> To: cf-metadata at cgd.ucar.edu
> Subject: [CF-metadata] proposed first non-beta version of CF
>
>
> A new beta-release (1.0-beta5) of the CF standards document
> is now complete.
> We propose that this version should become the first non-beta
> release of CF,
> in early October. If you have any comments on things which
> should be corrected
> or changed in this version, please make them to the email
> list by the end of
> September. Once we have made a non-beta release, presumably
> we will not want
> to make any backward-incompatible changes.
>
> However, additions to the standard will of course continue.
> In beta5, many of
> the changes which have been discussed and agreed on the email
> list have been
> implemented, as described in the document listing changes
> between beta4 and
> beta5, which can be found under the CF home page
> (http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/cms/eaton/cf-metadata/).
> There remain some to be incorporated, in particular the
> treatment of forecast
> time, and how to record operations such as covariance in
> cell_methods. There
> are also some grid mappings which have to be added. Proposals
> for further
> additions are welcome as usual on the email list. Work will
> start on a new
> release once 1.0 is agreed.
>
> The standard name table is now available in XML and linked
> from the standards
> document. Its contents are the same as those of the HTML
> version under the
> home page. The HTML version also has links to the guidelines for the
> construction of standard names, and to tables of equivalences
> of standard
> names with GRIB codes and AMIP names. The table will continue
> to be added to
> as requested through the email list. There are a few standard
> names soon to be
> added (on radiance and radiative forcing). There will be a
> large number of
> additions arising from the EU PRISM project in the next few months.
>
> Comments on this process or any aspect of the development of
> CF are welcome.
>
> Jonathan Gregory
> Brian Eaton
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