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Model for Scale Adaptive River Transport, Mosart, part of the Community Earth System Model
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Modify naming and attributes of time variables on history files to be consistent with other CESM components #53

Open phillips-ad opened 2 years ago

phillips-ad commented 2 years ago

These changes are being requested to improve the ease-of-access of CESM data and to normalize the look of the metadata across CESM components. See https://github.com/ESCOMP/CESM/issues/194 and especially the google doc referenced from https://github.com/ESCOMP/CESM/issues/194#issuecomment-961443965.

Current time array output:

double time(time) ;
    time:long_name = "time" ;
    time:units = "days since YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS" ;
    time:calendar = "noleap" ;
    time:bounds = "time_bounds" ;
double time_bounds(time, hist_interval) ;
    time_bounds:long_name = "history time interval endpoints" ;

Proposed time array output:

double time(time) ;
    time:long_name = "time" ;
    time:units = "days since YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS" ;
    time:calendar = "noleap" ;
    time:bounds = "time_bounds" ;
double time_bounds(time, nbnd) ;
    time_bounds:long_name = "time interval endpoints" ;
    time_bounds:units = "days since 2015-01-01 00:00:00" ;
    time_bounds:calendar = "noleap" ;

Changes made: add units/calendar attributes to time_bounds, modify time_bounds@long_name, change 2nd dimension name of time_bounds to nbnd.

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