Dear Martina I think these additions would be useful. I have some comments on detail of some of them.
> 1. richardson_number; 1 I'd suggest this should be richardson_number_in_sea_water since it could also be defined in air. > 2. viscosity and diffusivity measures: > sea_water_vertical_viscosity; m2 s-1 > sea_water_vertical_diffusivity; m2 s-1 > sea_water_vertical_diffusivity_due_to_wind; m2 s-1 We have existing standard names atmosphere_heat_diffusivity atmosphere_momentum_diffusivity ocean_isopycnal_layer_thickness_diffusivity all m2 s-1, so for precision and consistency I would suggest yours should be ocean_vertical_momentum_diffusivity ocean_vertical_tracer_diffusivity Viscosity is also a quantity in kg m-1 s-1, so "momentum diffusivity" (also sometimes called "kinematic viscosity") is more precise. Could you describe what you mean by "due to wind" in the case of diffusivity? > 3. water_flux_in_ocean_without_flux_correction; m s-1 [kg m-2 s-1] It might be clearer to say what *is* included rather than what is *not* included. What do you include in this water flux? We define distinct standard names for quantities with different units. If the quantity is in kg m-2 s-1 it is a water flux. If it is in m s-1 it is something else; we don't have a standard name for that at present, but it's like the rainfall_rate I suppose, for instance. Best wishes Jonathan _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
