Dear Stephen, Thank you for this. It's always encouraging to see other ocean modellers getting involved in CF! (I've been struggling to make NEMO output CF-compliant recently.)
It seems that quite a lot of your proposed names are duplicates of existing ones, eg rainfall_flux, surface_downward_x_stress, heat_flux_correction, surface_downward_latent_heat_flux, ocean_vertical_momentum_diffusivity, etc. Have you run your names through the latest CF standard_name table at http://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/documents/cf-standard-names/10/cf-standard- name-table.html ? It would show up such coincidences. And many of the entries in this table have descriptions attached to them, which may indicate whether: (a) the existing name means what you want it to mean, when they coincide; or (b) your field already exists under a different standard_name. A few points: (1) There are no standard_names including "laplacian" yet - it would seem to be the default (coeffs in m2/s). (2) There are lots of "ocean_vertical_..." diffusivities (see table); perhaps you need to to preface yours as "ocean_lateral_..." (I don't know; I'm no expert.) (3) Are you proposing that cell_thickness be introduced as a new cell_measure attribute (see Sec 7.2 of CF manual)? That way all fields "tied to" the cell_thickness could access it through post-processing software. Regards, Ian. On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 08:15 -0500, Stephen Griffies wrote: > Dear All, > > I present here a list of new names for fields relevant to the ocean. > These fields are a subset of those proposed for the upcoming global > climate model comparison project CMIP5, which is a project that feeds > into the IPCC process. A report that fully defines these fields can be > downloaded from (please look near the top of the web page) > > http://www.clivar.org/organization/wgomd/wgomd_publications.php > > I ask for your input on these names, with hopes of adding them to the > CF list. > > Sincerely, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > NOAA/GFDL > co-chair of CLIVAR Working Group for Ocean Model Development > > -- > Stephen M. Griffies phone: +1-609-452-6672 > Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory FAX: +1-609-987-5063 > Princeton Forrestal Campus Rte. 1 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 201 Forrestal Road http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/~smg > Princeton, NJ 08542-0308 USA snip > _______________________________________________ > CF-metadata mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata -- 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/ _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
