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[CF-metadata] Is there ambiguity in labelling climatological time. Was: CF-metadata Digest, Vol 144, Issue 25

From: Karl Taylor <taylor13>
Date: Tue, 05 May 2015 11:44:11 -0700

Dear all,

I agree with this view.

Karl

On 5/5/15 9:52 AM, Jonathan Gregory wrote:
> Dear all
>
> I agree with the view that we shouldn't be more restrictive about which year
> should be chosen for supplying climatological time coords. It is an arbitrary
> choice (in fact the coord is always arbitrary when the value applies to the
> entire cell, such as for a mean or a sum). The aim should be to be helpful to
> the data-users, who will probably use the coord for plotting the data. My
> preference is for the first year, since it's easiest to know which one that is!
>
> Best wishes
>
> Jonathan
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