[CF-metadata] How to build CF-compliant seasonal climatology when data begins within a season

From: Jim Biard <jbiard>
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 13:15:22 -0500

Karl,

I think you should be able to handle this in the bounds variable. If you
write the first entry as "2000-12-1", "2010-03-01", doesn't that
describe things correctly?

Grace and peace,

Jim

On 2/10/16 6:37 PM, Karl Taylor wrote:
> Dear CF community,
>
> In representing the seasonal climatology based on data available for
> the period January 1, 2000 through December 31 2010, what would be the
> correct climatology_bounds?
>
> climatology_bounds = "1999-12-1", "2011-3-1",
> "2000-3-1", "2010-6-1",
> "2000-6-1", "2010-9-1",
> "2000-9-1", "2010-12-1" ????
>
> I would note that this seems to capture the idea that we are reporting
> seasonal means, but it also seems to indicate that this is based in
> part on data from Dec. 1999 and Jan.-Feb. 2011, when it isn't. Is
> this the best I can do? [Of course the convention can never tell us
> if data are complete in forming a climatology. If 1 year were missing,
> this would not affect the attributes.]
>
> I suppose the in the cell_methods attribute ("time: mean over days
> time: mean over years" I could add non-standardized information (as
> permitted by CF), for example: "time: mean over days time: mean
> over years (with data from the period 2000-1-1 to 2011-1-1)"
>
> thanks for any suggestions,
> Karl
>
>
>
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