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[CF-metadata] Proposed cell_methods method

From: Godin, Michael <godin>
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:42:33 -0700

CF Community,

In another community, a member is trying to correctly represent a variable with a long name of "3 hour pressure change". The variable has units of Pa, so I believe it's standard name should be "air_pressure", not "tendency_of_air_pressure". However, the variable should probably have a cell_methods attribute that indicates this is a change over time, not an absolute measurement. But how to do so?

Perhaps something like cell_methods="time: change (interval: 3 hour)"

But there is no cell_method in appendix E like "change".

The alternative is to propose a new standard name "change_over_time_in_air_pressure", but doing so seems inelegant.

Mike

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Michael A. Godin
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Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Phone: 831-775-2063 http://www.mbari.org
Received on Fri Jun 29 2007 - 10:42:33 BST

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