Hi,
Another question relating to our work on migrating gridded UK observations data to NetCDF...
We have several variables that we describe loosely as 'days of rain'. Strictly speaking they are a count (e.g. for a calendar month) of the number of days when the 24-hour precipitation total was greater than or equal to a threshold. We currently generate grids for three thresholds - 0.2mm, 1.0mm and 10.0mm. My intention is to use the following existing standard name:
number_of_days_with_lwe_thickness_of_precipitation_amount_above_threshold
My only slight problem is that the definition implies 'greater than' whereas our variables are 'greater than or equal to' the threshold. Assuming the observations have a precision of 0.1 mm (which is true for the UK) I could declare the thresholds to be 0.1mm, 0.9mm and 9.9mm respectively. Alternatively, to avoid the assumption about precision I could use 0.19999mm, 0.99999mm and 9.99999mm.
Neither option seems very elegant or satisfactory. To define new standard name(s) seems over the top. What advice would others give? Is there a way to adapt the existing threshold variables (there are currently 8, relating to air temperature, precipitation and wind speed) to cope with both 'greater/less than' and 'greater/less than or equal to', or should I just use one of my solutions given above?
Thanks,
Dan
PS I appreciate this topic may have been discussed before, however I can't seem to find a way to search the mailing list archives. Is this possible and if so how? Thanks.
Dan Hollis Climatologist
Met Office Hadley Centre FitzRoy Road Exeter Devon EX1 3PB United Kingdom
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