[Go-essp-tech] CMOR DRS name

[Williams, Dean N.]

Hi Estani,

	I am cc'ing Charles on this e-mail thread.

Best regards,
	Dean

On 8/24/11 4:32 AM, "Estanislao Gonzalez" <gonzalez at dkrz.de> wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I'm seeing a problem which apparently comes from a known CMOR bug and
>would like to know how other institutions work around it.
>
>CMOR produced files with this name:
>psl_6hrPlev_MPI-ESM-LR_amip_r1i1p1_1979010100-197912311800.nc
>
>the problem here is in the subset. As you can notice here, the date is
>defined in two different resolutions:
>1979010100
>197912311800
>
>The DRS syntax say nothing about it:
>http://cmip-pcmdi.llnl.gov/cmip5/docs/cmip5_data_reference_syntax.pdf
>Although this field is defined as:
>yyyy[mm[dd[hh][mm]]][-clim]
>
>This definition is a little awkward as it allows to have either hours,
>or minutes, or both or none at all. But I assume that for some users
>that can be implied from the context.
>
>Have anyone already seen this? is there a bug already documented? And
>how are tools handling it? (I know the drslib can't)
>
>Do you see any other problems here?
>
>Thanks,
>Estani
>
>-- 
>Estanislao Gonzalez
>
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