[CF-metadata] How to express a non-station time series in CF

From: Don Murray <don.murray>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 08:52:59 -0700

Hi-

There are several groups out there that create time series of various
climate indicies (e.g. NINO3.4, NAO, MEI, etc) usually stored as ASCII
text. These time series don't necessarily have a "location", but some
may encompass a region (e.g. NINO3.4 has a bounding box).

If one wanted to store this in a netCDF file, is there a CF convention
for such a beast? It looks like it's similar to the DSG "Single time
series, including deviations from a nominal fixed spatial location"
(Appendix H.2.3) without the fixed spatial location. Is the location
information required for a timeSeries featureType?

Thanks for any info you could provide.

Don

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Don Murray
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303-497-3596
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