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size=2 face=Arial>Hello Karl,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">latxlon grids, the values will vary between
0. and 100. This will need to be communicated to users, and I'm open to
suggestions about that.</FONT><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
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class=893173810-07122011>aren't you looking for some sort of FAQ, or have I
missed something? This can be used either directly by the users
or by cmip5 helpdesk to answer these sort of questions. I guess the
main problems are you have to ensure the right questions (and answers) make
it onto the FAQ.</SPAN><SPAN class=893173810-07122011> And I think
this boils down to who is responsible for answering the questions? Who is
responsible for making sure they get included in the FAQ? Who is
responsible for editing the FAQ to keep it as useful as possible? Who is
responsible for making sure questions get
answered?</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=893173810-07122011>(Another way of looking at this is what is the use case
for 'answer user query', who are the actors?)</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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class=893173810-07122011>Of course it may be that a simple naive FAQ does not
scale to the number of questions asked about CMIP5 data... but it may be good
enough to get going even if you have to revise and replace with some 'knowledge
base' later?</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
class=893173810-07122011>If I understood a recent post from Stephen I *think* he
may have some ideas on this.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
class=893173810-07122011>Jamie</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>