Dear Vegard, all,
I take the opportunity to inform you that we are drafting a proposal for a netCDF convention on uncertainty (NetCDF-U).
This work is partly developed in the framework of the FP7 UncertWeb project.
We are going to present it next wednesday at the Open Geospatial Consortium TC Meeting in Bruxelles, to circulate it shortly after.
We have tried to be convention-neutral, in particular making sure that netCDF-U fully integrates with the netCDF-CF Conventions, even using the same constructs when possible (e.g. the ancillary_variables attribute).
Ideally, we think of datasets that would conform to both the conventions:
:Conventions = "CF-1.5 UW-1.0"
NetCDF-U is based on a generic mechanism for annotating netCDF variables according to the UncertML conceptual model.
The first example in your use-case would read something like (note that CF attributes are unchanged):
float precipitation_25(time, x, y) ;
precipitation_25:standard_name = "precipitation_amount" ;
precipitation_25:long_name = "precipitation_amount 25th percentile" ;
precipitation_25:ref = "
http://www.uncertml.org/statistics/percentile" ;
precipitation_25:level = "25" ;
The second, provided we have a variable "difference(Lat=100, Lon=100)" that contains the difference between the observed value and the forecast:
float probability(Lat=100, Lon=100) ;
probability:ref = "
http://www.uncertml.org/statistics/probability" ;
probability:gt = "-2.5" ;
probability:lt = "2.5" ;
I apologize if this is not clear enough, for the moment, and I hope it can be of prospective interest.
Any comment is very appreciated.
Best regards,
Lorenzo Bigagli
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Dott. Lorenzo Bigagli
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Istituto di Metodologie per l'Analisi Ambientale (CNR-IMAA)
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