Dear Ian, Yes, your explanation is clear enough, thank you; perhaps it would be nice in that case to turn the water flux standard name into "upward_water_flux_out_of_ocean_affecting_sea_surface_height_above_geiod". As it is a very, very long attribute I guess it is possible in CF to make an alias with "upward_water_flux_out_of_ocean_affecting_SSH" (ie SSH=sea_surface_height_above_geiod)? Yes?
Kind regards Olivier. -----Message d'origine----- De : Ian Culverwell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : jeudi 10 juillet 2008 09:56 À : olivier lauret Cc : Ian Culverwell; [email protected] Objet : RE: [CF-metadata] Proposed CF standard names for the NEMO oceanmodel Dear Olivier, On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 17:04 +0100, Ian Culverwell wrote: > > For example by 'SSH' you perhaps mean 'sea surface height', and there are 3 > > kinds of different sea surface heights in the CF standard name table. What > > kind of SSH would it match? Do you think it changes the meaning of (T3) not > > to mention 'affecting_SSH'? I'm asking this because I am not sure it > > is..But I way be wrong, please tell me. > > I didn't know about 3 types of SSH - I'll think about what I mean > precisely and get back to you when I return from vacation in the week > beginning Jul 7th. I've had time to think about this now - thanks for your patience. The water flux in T.3 ("upward_water_flux_out_of_ocean_affecting_SSH") is the one that affects the sea_surface_height_above_geiod. It differs from T.5 ("upward_water_flux_out_of_ocean_affecting_SSS") by terms involving salt and freshwater fluxes from sea-ice - at least in the NEMO formulation. I don't know whether in observational reality one could or should distinguish between the two, but they're different in the model and so we need different standard names. Hence the qualifications "..._affecting_X". Hope this clears things up a bit. Regards, Ian. -- Ian Culverwell B-2-81 Ocean and Sea Ice Modelling Met Office FitzRoy Road Exeter Devon EX1 3PB United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)1392 884017 Fax: +44 (0)1392 885861 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metoffice.gov.uk Met Office climate change predictions can now be viewed on Google Earth http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/hadleycentre/google/ Cliquez sur l'url suivante https://www.mailcontrol.com/sr/AxqPpIfBvmbTndxI!oX7Uoa1VnJPWXo6+vmyjx+lPD0Nwr3KaL23CXTyybWKO7BIoXegmJefQu+l3fOT1a7RlQ== si ce message est indésirable (pourriel). _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
