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| | 2 | === Cell Method === |
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| | 4 | The cell methods construct describes the methods by which the data values of the field construct represent variation within their cells. It is an ordered list, because the methods specified are not necessarily commutative. |
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| | 6 | Each entry of the list specifies: one or more domain axes, or, CF standard names; |
| | 7 | and one method. |
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| | 9 | The variation is defined to be with respect to the named domain axes or with respect to the quantity defined by the standard names, depending on which is specified. |
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| | 11 | Appendix E of the CF conventions for NetCDF files lists method names which may be defined using the controlled terminology name ``cell_methods``. |
| | 12 | Special methods indicate climatological time processing. |
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| | 14 | CF NetCDF |
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| | 16 | The cell measures construct corresponds to the cell_methods attribute of the data variable in CF-netCDF files. |
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