[CF-metadata] ensemble dimension

From: Karl Taylor <taylor13>
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:53:27 -0700

Dear all,

Jonathan points out that the term "ensemble_realization" is ambiguous.
I agree and withdraw the suggestion.

Karl


On 06-Apr-10 11:56 PM, Jonathan Gregory wrote:
> Dear all
>
> I agree that "ensemble_member_identifier" is likely to be more self-explanatory
> than "realization". I withdrew my suggestion of the former because I'd
> forgotten, when I made it, that we already had the latter as a standard name.
> If ensemble_member_identifier is preferred, we could change the standard name
> in the usual way, using an alias.
>
> I am less happy with "ensemble_realization", although I think it is a term
> which is used, because it sounds vague to me. It could mean an instance of
> an entire ensemble, rather than a member of an ensemble.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Jonathan
>
>
Received on Wed Apr 07 2010 - 09:53:27 BST