[Go-essp-tech] Incorrect file names?

[Karl Taylor]

Dear Novice (with clearly more knowledge than most so-called experts),

I'm copying a contact for the GEOS-5 model who may be able to provide 
some information on this.  I can't explain why the monthly file names 
are inconsistent with what CMOR2 puts out.  Maybe CMOR2 wasn't used.  
The DRS document doesn't absolutely forbid including more precision than 
necessary in specifying the time-periods, so I don't think we can force 
them to rename their files.  That being said, my hope was everyone would 
use CMOR, so the file names would all follow the same template.

Karl

On 2/13/12 9:30 AM, Jennifer Adams wrote:
> Dear Experts,
>
> Here is a dataset:
> http://pcmdi3.llnl.gov/esgcet/dataset/cmip5.output1.NASA-GMAO.GEOS-5.decadal1960.mon.atmos.Amon.r1i1p1.html
>
> And here is the file name template for all the variables in this dataset:
> <varname>_Amon_GEOS-5_decadal1960_r1i1p1_19610116-19701216.nc
>
> My script to generate a GrADS descriptor for this file barked because 
> the MONTHLY data file has time stamps in the YYYYMMDD format.
> If I have read the DRS document correctly, this a not a correct file 
> name.
> Shouldn't I be able to assume that monthly files will have only YYYYMM 
> date strings?
>
> --Jennifer
>
>
> --
> Jennifer M. Adams
> IGES/COLA
> 4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302
> Calverton, MD 20705
> jma at cola.iges.org <mailto:jma at cola.iges.org>
>
>
>
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