[Go-essp-tech] Incorrect file names?
Laura Carriere
Laura.E.Carriere at nasa.gov
Tue Feb 14 11:29:52 MST 2012
Quick answer on my way to a meeting - CMOR2 was used for this and at
least one other dataset that we have (from COLA) that also has the
yyyymmdd format. I'll ask a few other questions after my meeting but
that's the short answer.
Laura.
On 2/14/2012 1:21 PM, Karl Taylor wrote:
> 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>
>>
>>
>>
--
Laura Carriere, SAIC laura.carriere at nasa.gov
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