taylor13

SEE https://github.com/PCMDI/cmor/issues/499#issuecomment-499637184 FOR REVISED THINKING ABOUT THIS. I think you have identified a issue here that we should try to solve. If you want to report output on model levels...

Further clarification: The actual parametric vertical coordinate must have the same values for all sites; only certain parameter terms (like ps) can vary with site. Also, I now recall that...

I just found a test code that should already tell us that this works: https://github.com/PCMDI/cmor/blob/master/Test/test_python_cfmip_site_axis_test.py . This is for vertical coordinate that needs orog(site), rather than ps(site,time1), but I think...

@durack1 may have something to say about this, but as I recall, the activity_participation list was meant to be purely informal and not definitive. We asked the groups to include...

I think the kludge we anticipated to handle this for variables in CFsubhr was to not provide all the information in a single file. Rather we would write "rld" in...

The CF convention does not allow external_variables="ps", so that file in non-compliant. and it's not o.k. to save other CF metadata as external_variables *except* cell_measures .

@wachsylon @ehogan : I don't think CMOR3 can handle missing values in cell vertices although that is what should be done according to the [output requirements document](https://goo.gl/neswPr) ``` If a...

@wachsylon @ehogan We are developing [specs for a remapping "weights" file]( https://goo.gl/dvUgxd) where we also need to store cell vertices. Our guidance there is: ``` If a cell has fewer...

The issue I opened on CF recently ([here](http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/pipermail/cf-metadata/2017/009474.htmlwas)) was resolved by agreeing the CF would include this: "For grids constructed from cells that do not all have the same number...

For cell_measures the ordering of the pairs separated by colons is arbitrary. For cell_methods, the order can matter (as discussed in the 1st paragraph below) and a construct like `area:...