Dear Karl,
Thank you very much for checking this. Yes, the intention is to accumulate fluxes over the hour.
Regards,
Alejandro
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CF-metadata [mailto:cf-metadata-bounces at cgd.ucar.edu] On Behalf Of
> Karl Taylor
> Sent: 10 February 2016 23:08
> To: cf-metadata at cgd.ucar.edu
> Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] How to build CF-compliant monthly mean diurnal
> cycles
>
> Dear Alejandro,
>
> I hope someone else will also check this, but I'm pretty sure you've
> done it correctly. I would note that "time: mean within days time: mean
> over days" implies in your example that fluxes are 1-hour mean amounts
> averaged for each hour of the day over all days in the month. If you
> aren't accumulating fluxes over the hour, but instead just sampling a
> single time-step, then you should specify "time: point within days time:
> mean over days".
>
> regards,
> Karl
>
> On 2/10/16 7:56 AM, Bodas-Salcedo, Alejandro wrote:
> > Dear CF community,
> >
> > I am trying to create a dataset that contains monthly mean diurnal cycles of
> radiative fluxes (i.e. the average day of each month), but I am not sure how to do
> this in a CF-compliant way. Example 7.10 does this for one month (Section 7.4 on
> Climatological statistics), so it seems natural to extend this example. Will the
> following extension of Example 7.10 to two consecutive months be correct?
> >
> > Thanks for your help.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Alejandro
> >
> >
> >
> > dimensions:
> > time=48;
> > nv=2;
> > variables:
> > float temperature(time,lat,lon);
> > temperature:long_name="surface air temperature";
> > temperature:cell_methods="time: mean within days time: mean over days";
> > temperature:units="K";
> > double time(time);
> > time:climatology="climatology_bounds";
> > time:units="hours since 1997-4-1";
> > double climatology_bounds(time,nv);
> > data: // time coordinates translated to date/time format
> > time="1997-4-1 0:30", "1997-4-1 1:30", ... "1997-4-1 23:30", "1997-5-1 0:30",
> "1997-5-1 1:30", ... "1997-5-1 23:30";
> > climatology_bounds="1997-4-1 0:00", "1997-4-30 1:00",
> > "1997-4-1 1:00", "1997-4-30 2:00",
> > ...
> > "1997-4-1 23:00", "1997-5-1 0:00" ;
> > "1997-5-1 0:00", "1997-5-31 1:00",
> > "1997-5-1 1:00", "1997-5-31 2:00",
> > ...
> > "1997-5-1 23:00", "1997-5-31 0:00" ;
> >
> >
>
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