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Updated CMOR driver for COSP2 #8

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dustinswales opened this issue Mar 13, 2018 · 17 comments
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Updated CMOR driver for COSP2 #8

dustinswales opened this issue Mar 13, 2018 · 17 comments

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I'm not sure how important this is, especially that we now have a non-CMOR dependent offline driver, but is there a desire to update the CMOR driver to use the latest version of CMOR (version3)?

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RobertPincus commented Mar 13, 2018 via email

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RobertPincus commented Mar 14, 2018 via email

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@dustinswales @RobertPincus @klein21 Hi, I am in favour of deleting the CMOR interface. This interface was used for CMIP5, when one or two modelling centres run COSP offline. I don't think this is needed any more, and it makes the installation overly complex due to a number of additional external dependencies. Perhaps we could ask in the cosp-users group, just to be sure than no-one is opposed to this.
However, I think the netcdf output should be CF-compliant so that it can still be easily readable by many data analysis software. In principle, this should not be too difficult.

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@RobertPincus That's why I think doing a quick survey among the users would be good. If the offline use is very small or non-exsitent, then making the files CF-compliant would not be that important.
@dustinswales Is there an output file already available in the repository? I could run it through a CF checker and see if the issues are major ones or not.

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@RobertPincus thanks for this. I think the file is nearly a minimalist CF-compliant file. I have a few suggestions that I think should be easy to add:

  1. add a variable for each of the dimensions. For instance, when I read the MISR histogram, I get
    MISR CFAD / (%) (altitude_bin_centers: 16; cloud_optical_depth_bin_centers: 7; -- : 153)

but when I read in the 3D calipso cloud fraction I get:

Calipso cloud-fraction / (%) (-- : 40; -- : 153)

The '--' indicates that there is no variable associated with that axis. Hopefully adding these is not too much work.

  1. The CF checker complains of the following:
    latitude variable 'latitude' should define standard_name='latitude'
    (same for longitude)

Global attribute 'Conventions' field is not present

  1. Whenever possible, I would add the standard_name attribute.

  2. Some of the long names are not strictly correct, e.g. use of 'CFAD' for ISCCP and MISR histograms.

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CMOR capability has been removed from COSP2 offline driver.

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