[CF-metadata] Formatting of cell_methods

From: mcginnis at ucar.edu <mcginnis>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:03:05 -0600

Hi all,

The CF standard says the cell_methods attribute is a string attribute
comprising a list of blank-separated words of the form "name: method".
There can also be a parenthesis-delimited comment following the
name-method pair.

My question is: are spaces obligatory between the name, method, and comment?

For example, if we're summing over the time dimension, can the
cell_methods attribute be written as:

         "time:sum(24 hours)" ?

Or does it need to be

         "time: sum (24 hours)"?

Thanks!

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Seth McGinnis
Associate Scientist
ISSE / NCAR
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