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To identify the type of data

A way of labelling hindcasts and forecasts to match them needs to be devised and could be included in the future in this attribute or will need a different attribute
Attribute NameValueExamplesComment
ConventionsCF_convention_string  C3S-0.1 [Other convention] :..."CF-1.6 C3S-0.1"

Multiple conventions may be included (separated by blank spaces)

title

A controlled vocabulary will be provided"<short institution name> seasonal forecast model output prepared for C3S"

CF: Free text

ACDD (highly recommended)

"IPSL-CM5A-LR ECMWF seasonal forecast model output prepared for CMIP5 RCP4.5C3S"
A short phrase or sentence describing the dataset. In many discovery systems, the title will be displayed in the results list from a search, and therefore should be human readable and reasonable to display in a list of such names
<short institution name> is the first element of the comma-separated list of values of the corresponding "institution" attribute
references

URIs (such as a URL or DOI) for papers or other references. A valid doi is recommended

CF: Free text

"doi:10.5194/gmd-8-1509-2015"
Published or web-based references that describe the data or methods used to produce it.
sourceA methodology to build this attribute will be provided
  • "world model v.0.1"
  • "model-generated, GloSea5-GC2"
  • "IPSL-CM5A-LR (2010) : atmos : LMDZ4 (LMDZ4_v5, 96x95x39); ocean : ORCA2 (NEMOV2_3, 2x2L31); seaIce : LIM2 (NEMOV2_3); ocnBgchem : PISCES (NEMOV2_3); land : ORCHIDEE (orchidee_1_9_4_AR5)"

The method of production of the original data. If it was model-generated, source should name the model and its version, as specifically as it could be useful

institution

A controlled vocabulary will be provided

CF: Free text

 

Controlled Vocabulary:

"ECMWF, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, United Kingdom"

"Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom"

"Météo-France, Toulouse, France"

"DWD, Deutscher Wetterdienst, Offenbach, Germany"

"CMCC, Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici, Bologna, Italy"

CF: Free text

 

"Météo-France, Toulouse, France""Met Office"

Specifies where the original data was produced. The name of the institution principally responsible for originating this data.

NOTE: The first element of the comma-separated list of values will be used as a shortened version of this attribute in some of the other global attributes ('summary', 'title')

contact

Copernicus User Support URI should be used
http://copernicus-support.ecmwf.int

CF: Free text

"http://copernicus-support.ecmwf.int"

 

project

"C3S Seasonal Forecast" should be used

CF: Free text

 

"C3S Seasonal Forecast" 
creation_date

SPECS: YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss<zone>

ISO 8601:2004 extended format

"2011-06-24T02:53:46Z"

The date on which this version of the data was created. Modification of values implies a new version, hence this would be assigned the date of the most recent values modification. Metadata changes are not considered when assigning the creation_date

NOTE: The ACDD 1.3 names this attribute as "date_create". The name "creation_date" has been used following SPECS convention.

commentFree text
  • "Produced by University of Hamburg for DWD at ECMWF HPC facilities"
  • "Run by CMCC at CINECA"
Miscellaneous information about the data, not captured elsewhere.
forecast_type

"forecast" or "hindcast

"forecast"

"

"forecast"

To identify the type of data



history

Each line should begin with a timestamp indicating the date and time of day when the program was executed

CF: Free Text

  • "Produced using CDS Toolbox on 1/6/2016"
  • "Model raw output postprocessing with modelling environment (IMDI) at DKRZ: URL: http://svn-mad.zmaw.de/svn/mad/Model/IMDI/trunk, REV: 3436 2011-07-17T15:14:45Z CMOR rewrote data to comply with CF standards and CMIP5 requirements."

To record relevant information, such as the command history which led to this file being produced. Provides an audit trail for modifications to the original data.
Well-behaved generic netCDF filters will automatically append their name and the parameters with which they were invoked to the global history attribute of an input netCDF file

 

commit,

iso_lineage or lineage

Free text (ISO Lineage model 19115-2)"Produced using CDS Toolbox v1.0"

Trace of the tools/scripts used.

Either this attribute or the "history" attribute needs to include information about the versioning of the software used to create the data.

This is related with some of the EQC activities (WP4 of QA4SEAS). ISO 19115-2 defines a linage model where this is been considered.

summary

Controlled Vocabulary:
The content will be provided"Seasonal Forecast data produced by <short institution name> as its contribution to the seasonal forecast activity of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S). The data has global coverage with a 1-degree horizontal resolution and spans for around 6 months since the start date"

ACDD (highly recommended)

"Seasonal Forecast data produced by DWD as its contribution to the seasonal forecast activity of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S). The data has global coverage with a 1-degree horizontal resolution and spans for around 6 months since the start date" A short paragraph describing the dataset

A short paragraph describing the dataset

 

<short institution name> is the first element of the comma-separated list of values of the corresponding "institution" attribute

keywords

Fixed string

"Seasonal Forecasts, C3S, ECMWF, Copernicus, Climate Change, Climate Services, Earth Science Services, Environmental Advisories, Climate Advisories"

keywords

The content will be provided

ACDD (highly recommended)

 

A comma separated list of key words and phrases.

NOTE: This attribute is likely to be modified in the future, once the contents of the Thesaurus for CDS faceting will be defined

forecast_reference_time

SPECS: YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ

NOTE: This is ISO 8601:2004 extended format, but time zone is required to be UTC

"2011-06-01T00:00:00Z"

time of the analysis from which the forecast was made


Introduced as global attribute to keep compatibility with SPECS
(note that works fine for SPECS data structure, i.e. one variable per start time per file)

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