[Go-essp-tech] Extending the DRS syntax to observations

[martin.juckes at stfc.ac.uk]

One possibility would be to put the processing software version in the "instrument" tag, just as the CMIP5 DRS has the model version in the model tag. 

Martin

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From: go-essp-tech-bounces at ucar.edu [mailto:go-essp-tech-bounces at ucar.edu] On Behalf Of Cinquini, Luca (3880)
Sent: 27 January 2011 19:26
To: Lynnes, Christopher S. (GSFC-6102)
Cc: go-essp-tech at ucar.edu; climate-obs
Subject: Re: [Go-essp-tech] Extending the DRS syntax to observations

Hi Chris,
	good question. My feeling is that this information is too complex to be encoded as part of the file names or directory structure, and should probably go into two places:

o The tech note that is associated with each dataset
o Perhaps, a global attribute that is encoded in the netcdf files themselves (which can be harvested and displayed on the web interface)

What's your opinion ?

thanks, Luca

On Jan 27, 2011, at 12:08 PM, Lynnes, Christopher S. (GSFC-6102) wrote:

> Luca,
>   Where do you make visible the information that those files were generated by the AIRS processing software version 5.2.2, or alternatively that it is Collection 5 AIRS and not Collection 3 AIRS?  These distinctions are rather critical w.r.t. the content of the data...
> 
> 
>> 
>> The values for the various fields <agency>, <mission>, <instrument> and <processing level> would need to be selected from a controlled vocabulary similar to the one established for models.
>> 
>> Any comment or insight on the matter is appreciated.... The idea is to try to finalize the specification relatively quickly, let's say a couple of weeks, so that we can start preparing
>> and publishing these observations into the CMIP5 archive.
>> 
>> thanks in advance,
>> 
>> Luca
>> 
> 
> --
> Dr. Christopher Lynnes     NASA/GSFC, Code 610.2    phone: 301-614-5185

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