On 5/17/11 9:17 AM, Jonathan Gregory wrote:
> Dear Benno
>
>> CF has standard names forecast_reference_time, forecast_period and
>> time which are interrelated in a particular way.
>>
note, from the standard name table:
"""
The forecast reference time in NWP is the "data time", the time of the
analysis from which the forecast was made. It is not the time for which
the forecast is valid; the standard name of time should be used for that
time.
"""
So this really is a concept specific to forecasts, and not at all what
you want. Similarly for forecast_period.
>> I have a trajectory dataset which also has reference_time, period,
>> and time which are interrelated in the same way, but forecast is not
>> an appropriate descriptor:
I think you have the really standard time here, usually simply the
"time" array (expressed in time-since-a-reference-datetime). What does
"period" mean in your case?
-Chris
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Received on Tue May 17 2011 - 10:31:57 BST
