Dear CF'ers,
The draft 1.7 conventions example Example 7.8. Climatological seasons
has the following for the time coordinate:
time="1960-4-16", "1960-7-16", "1960-10-16", "1961-1-16" ;
All else being equal, are the values
time="1975-4-16", "1975-7-16", "1975-10-16", "1976-1-16" ;
also be acceptable for this same example?
The underlying question is whether there is permissible ambiguity
in the time coordinate values, or if for some reason the
beginning year (1960) must be used as in this example. An alternative
choice that seems reasonable to me is the use of the midpoint year
(1975). I'm unsure whether 1960 was chosen arbitrarily or because one
is expected to apply the minimum operation discussed in this example
(seasonal minimum temperature) to the values of the time coordinate
as well.
Thanks,
Charlie
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Charlie Zender, Earth System Sci. & Computer Sci.
University of California, Irvine 949-891-2429 )'(
Received on Wed Apr 29 2015 - 18:11:07 BST
