[Go-essp-tech] How does "experiment=volcanic aerosol" come to be in CMIP5?

[Karl Taylor]

Hi Mike,

I would hold off on this until Bob Drach can weigh in.

thanks,
Karl

On 2/20/12 10:10 AM, Estanislao Gonzalez wrote:
> That's Bob area...
>
> But I'm sure you'll have at least to recreate the catalogs and publish
> again.
>
> Go step-by-tep. Just unpublish up to the catalog, generate the catalog
> again and check if the description is ok. If it's not, you will have to
> remove the data completely from the DB,
>
> Check step-by-step and with only one dataset. Once you know what's the
> minimal set of changes required, you can correct all other datasets faster.
>
> Take care though that if oyu have to delete the data from the DB you
> will also loose the version number, so you will have to provide it again
> afterwards.
> Please make sure the version number match the one in the DRS structure!
>
> Thanks,
> Estani
> Am 20.02.2012 18:57, schrieb Mike Berkley:
>> The description for historicalMisc is indeed "volcanic aerosol",
>> instead of "other historical forcing".
>>
>> esgcet=>   select * from experiment where name='historicalMisc';
>>         name      | project |   description
>> ----------------+---------+------------------
>>    historicalMisc | cmip5   | volcanic aerosol
>> (1 row)
>>
>> If we update the database by hand, will that update THREDDS and the
>> gateway, or will we need to publish/republish?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 03:39, Estanislao Gonzalez<gonzalez at dkrz.de>   wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> If the problem was a copy&   paste from the historicalVL experiment, then you
>>> have just to change the description of the HistoricalMisc. This is done in
>>> the esgcet DB, in the table experiment.
>>>
>>> But we have a different description for it:
>>> esgcet=# SELECT * from experiment where name='historicalVL';
>>>       name     | project |   description
>>> --------------+---------+------------------
>>>    historicalVL | cmip5   | volcanic aerosol
>>> (1 row)
>>>
>>> esgcet=# SELECT * from experiment where name='historicalMisc';
>>>        name      | project |
>>>    description
>>> ----------------+---------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>    historicalMisc | cmip5   | historical simulation but with other individual
>>> forcing agents or combinations of forcings
>>> (1 row)
>>>
>>> If you have the same description as we do, then the information is coming
>>> from somewhere else.
>>>
>>> Hope this helps,
>>> Estani
>>>
>>>
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