Last December I sent a message about the time order of a Carra variable being incorrect.
I recently downloaded several variables for 2025 and they all had the time order wrong. Fixing this with cdo sorttimestamp is easy, but this is a change in the way the data is delivered.
To better understand the source of this issue I examined a file I downloaded last year
(tidirswrf for 2017). When I originally fetched this file the time order came out fine. I repeated the request now, and the time order for the year 2017 was wrong. So the issue is not that
the last year of Carra data is stored differently, but that all carra data I ask for is not delivered
ordered in time.
So, two questions
a) is this a known issue?
b) Is there a way to add an operator to the python request to sort the data according to the time key as it is being retrieved and delivered’?