[CF-metadata] climatological statistics

From: Jonathan Gregory <j.m.gregory>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 17:43:52 +0100

Dear Natalia

I think example 7.13 is acceptable. It uses climatological bounds because there
are two statistical operations. First, daily sums are accumulated. Second, the
maximum is computed.

However, I agree this is debatable and probably not ideal. It would be better
seen as an example of section 7.3.2, with a single statistical operation of
"maximum" and a cell_methods which recorded "(interval: 1 day)". Do you agree?

Best wishes

Jonathan

> There is also the example 7.13 (Monthly-maximum daily precipitation
> totals) which doesn't correspond to these ways.
> For me, to find max daily precipitation for each month is an usual
> statistics, but not climatological. So, I think that the
> "climatology_bounds" variable should be renamed to "time_bnds".
> For example, in CMIP5 project monthly statistics derived from daily
> variables have no "climatology_bounds" but "time_bnds" variable.
Received on Thu Apr 24 2014 - 10:43:52 BST