[Go-essp-tech] Forcings on Historical

[Bryan Lawrence]

I think it'd be better to fix this at source, otherwise these problems will lurk for ever not only in ESGF, but on the hard drives of everyone who downloads the data - causing a potential problem for the actual science because everyone will have to have their own hacks to deal with it.

I realise this may be a bit unfair on folks who wrote their data in advance, but the flip-side is that not doing so is unfair on everyone who uses that data ...

Cheers
Bryan


> Hi Estani,
> 
> Yes, the official name for all of these is historicalMisc, and the 
> different runs should have been identified by a different "p" value in 
> the "rip", which distinguishes among members of an ensemble.  The DRS 
> document describes this in more detail.
> 
> I *think* these datasets may have been generated prior to the DRS 
> controlled vocabulary being fully settled, so I haven't raised a stink 
> about this.  I note that they show up in the old gateway1.3.4 search, 
> but not in the new p2p search.
> 
> Is there some way that the non-conforming experiment names could be 
> changed, so that users can find these experiments under historicalMisc?
> 
> Best regards,
> Karl
> 
> 
> On 3/30/12 3:19 AM, Estanislao Gonzalez wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to replicate data from CSIRO-QCCCE and I see the following
> > experiments names:
> > historicalNoOz
> > historicalNoAA
> > historicalAntNoAA
> > historicalAnt
> > historicalAA
> >
> > These are used as the dataset id, e.g.
> > cmip5.output1.CSIRO-QCCCE.CSIRO-Mk3-6-0.historicalAA.fx.atmos.fx.r0i0p0
> >
> > Shouldn't those be historicalMisc and the forcings detailed within the
> > global attributes?
> >
> > By the way, we are also missing the contact data for CSIRO data node in
> > the CMIP5 Status Page.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Estani
> >
> >
> 

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National Centre for Atmospheric Science: Director of Models and Data. 
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