Dear Martina Sorry to reopen this, but in reading Ian Culverwell's list I have noticed something got lost from our discussion. I suggested your names should be ocean_vertical_momentum_diffusivity ocean_vertical_tracer_diffusivity and in your reply you said you agreed. But in your subsequent list you have ocean_vertical_viscosity; m2 s-1 ocean_vertical_diffusivity; m2 s-1 I suggested using "momentum diffusivity" rather than "viscosity" because we have a corresponding standard name atmosphere_momentum_diffusivity in the table already, and because "viscosity" is not always a quantity in m2 s-1. Then "tracer diffusivity" makes a contrast with this. It is quite likely that at some point we may be asked to distinguish ocean_heat_diffusivity and ocean_salinity_diffusivity, for instance, and "tracer" covers both for the moment.
Hence could I repeat my suggestion for this change, with apologies for not having noticed it was missing before. Best wishes Jonathan _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
