Hello CF
The standard name
realization
is available for use:
Realization is used to label a dimension that can be thought of asa statistical sample, e.g., labelling members of a model ensemble.
It is common practice in forecasting and some forecasting formats to explicitly state the number of members an ensemble contained.
This would be generally be expected to be a single value across an ensemble collection. As such I am not sure that a standard name and a coordinate would be the most useful way to encode this piece of information.
Thus, we could look to provide a new data variable attribute, something like
number_of_realizations
to store this metadata.
However it is not impossible for this to vary across some coherent data set so perhaps a standard_name of
number_of_realizations
would be a sensible approach, even if in most cases this would be a scalar coordinate
Please may I ask for some opinions on this matter?
thank you
mark
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