Dear Christiane > The Guidelines for Construction of CF Standard Names > http://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/documents/cf-standard-names/guidelines > state for 'atmosphere' under 'Special Phrases': > 'atmosphere: > used instead of in_air for quantities which are large-scale rather than > local ' > > In addition, 'atmosphere' is not consistently placed: > tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_<X>_due_to_<process> > Tendency_of_moles_of_<G>_in_atmosphere
I don't really see the problem with this. We introduced in_atmosphere because "atmosphere_moles_of_<G>" didn't sound natural. It's just a grammatical rule for standard names that we use _in_atmosphere in this case instead of the atmosphere prefix, I would say. There are a lot of names with the atmosphere prefix and I wouldn't say there's a strong reason for changing it. Best wishes Jonathan _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
