[CF-metadata] standards for probabilities

From: Jonathan Gregory <j.m.gregory>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:42:57 +0000

Dear Vegard

On further thought, I wonder whether the confidence_interval could be regarded
as a cell_method, if it relates to a (collapsed) axis of realization?

Best wishes

Jonathan

On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 06:55:47PM +0000, Jonathan Gregory wrote:
> Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 18:55:47 +0000
> From: Jonathan Gregory <j.m.gregory at reading.ac.uk>
> To: Vegard B??nes <vegard.bones at met.no>
> Cc: cf-metadata at cgd.ucar.edu
> Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] standards for probabilities
> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)
>
> Dear Vegard
>
> Thanks for your email. Now I understand what you mean by confidence i.e. a
> confidence level for a value which has uncertainty. I agree, this is like other
> uses for standard_name modifiers, in particular the standard_error modifier.
> You need to link it to an extra dimension, and I suggest that the best way
> to do this would be through a standard_name. For instance, define the
> standard_name modifier of confidence_interval ("confidence" alone seems a bit
> vague - that's why I didn't understand what you meant), and state that if
> a variable has this modifier, it must have a coordinate variable or scalar
> coordinate variable whose standard_name is confidence_level. Both the modifier
> and the standard_name would be additions to CF.
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