Hi All -
The term realization is, apparently, *perfectly* clear to you
modelers, but it conveys no information at all to me.
Since it looks like it's going to be adopted, I hope you'll provide
a really clear definition in the standard - something that even an
oceanographer will understand.
Thanks!
- Nan
John Caron wrote:
> Jonathan Gregory wrote:
>> Dear all
>>
>> "realization" is fine as a standard name. I had forgotten we had
>> introduced it.
>> I withdraw my suggestion of ensemble_member_identifier.
>>
>> Thus, the standard name (of realization) can be used to identify an
>> ensemble
>> axis. I think that providing an axis attribute as well could be
>> helpful: with
>> spatiotemporal axes we have both methods of identification, and it is
>> possible
>> there might be ensemble axes in which realization was a not a good
>> choice of
>> standard name.
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