[Go-essp-tech] Incorrect file names?

[Jennifer Adams]

Oh dear. Rather than renaming the files, I used a set of symlinks to solve my immediate problem, but I still find this a bit troubling. I will have to check all GEOS-5 data files I grab from now on. I asked Larry Marx to check if any of COLA's CMIP5 data at NASA have 8-digit date stamps, and he found everything to be correct with only YYYYMM date strings. 
--Jennifer


On Feb 14, 2012, at 1:29 PM, Laura Carriere wrote:

> 
> 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
>>> 
>>> 
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>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
> 
> 
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