Um, I don't think that's true, actually. That's probably a sensible convention
to follow in many cases, but I don't believe it's a CF requirement. (Or at
least, I never noticed it. If it is in there, we need to edit the spec to make
it more prominent!)
Cheers,
--Seth
On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 08:28:08 -0400
Jim Biard <jim.biard at noaa.gov> wrote:
>Andreas,
>
>The other thing to keep in mind regarding the time bounds (and other bounds
>variables, such as for X and Y or longitude and latitude) is that the upper
>bound is exclusive. The upper bound value is greater than the values in the
>interval.
>
>Grace and peace,
>
>Jim
>
>Jim Biard
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>Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites
>Remote Sensing and Applications Division
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>
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>
>On Mar 15, 2013, at 5:45 PM, Andreas Hilboll <lists at hilboll.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I want to store monthly averages of gridded satellite measurements of
>> atmospheric trace gas columns. I'm wondering how I should specify the
>> time axis, i.e. set the time for each monthly aggregate to the first, or
>> the central, or the last day of the month. How should I specify that the
>> values are actually monthly averages?
>>
>> Thanks for your ideas!
>> Cheers, Andreas.
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