[Esip-documentation] time_coverage_duration and time_coverage_resolution for climatological data

[Ajay Krishnan - NOAA Affiliate]

Hello All,

I am looking at populating global attributes for a dataset which contains
monthly mean temperature for 1995-2004.

I had recommended
:time_coverage_duration="P10Y" ;
The science steward is not convinced, and perhaps rightly so, because it is
not a 10yr field but a 1 month field which is a mean of 10yrs of that
month. How should the global attribute be populated in this case?
What about the time_coverage_resolution attribute?

Are such complicated cases outside the purview of ACDD?

Thanks!
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