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[CF-metadata] How to represent "6-hourly diurnal monthly means" in CF ?

From: John Caron <caron>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:47:26 -0700

Thanks, Jonathan.

On 2/21/2012 11:18 AM, Jonathan Gregory wrote:
> Dear John
>
>> However, im not sure what this sentence in 7.4 means: "When
>> considering intervals within days, if the earlier time of day is
>> equal to the later time of day, then the method is applied to a full
>> 24 hour day."
> It doesn't matter in the instantaneous case, but it does matter for statistics
> that apply to the whole cell, like means and accumulations, such as
>
>> precipitation:cell_methods="time: sum within days time: mean over days";
> If the sums were for 24-hour intervals, the bounds might be
>
>> climatology_bounds="2008-08-01T00:00Z", "2008-09-01T00:00Z",
> Here, the time of day is the same (00:00Z) at both ends. That means it
> applies to full days. That's what the bit quoted is talking about. However,
> this doesn't arise in your six-hourly case.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Jonathan
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