Dear Jonathan and Philippe, Many thanks for your comments. Below are my responses:
-> aerosol with or without prefix dry/amient I agree that it would be be a good idea to alias all existing _aerosol_ names to _ambient_aerosol_ -> old: optical_thickness_of_atmosphere_layer_due_to_aerosol FROM ME >> The other optical thickness names are built like this: >> atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_X >> For consistency, I would suggest to change the first name to >> atmosphere_layer_optical_thickness_due_to_aerosol > FROM JONATHaN > I don't agree with that because all the existing 31 names with atmosphere_layer > have of_atmosphere_layer or in_atmosphere_layer. However I have thought for > some time that we don't really need the "atmosphere layer" names. We could > just specify "atmosphere" and allow the bounds of the vertical coordinate to > indicate what layer it means. That would be a simplification. > Maybe we could alias this name with atmosphere_optical_extinction_due_to_X because usually optical thickness refers to the whole column of the atmosphere and is the vertical integral the extinction. This way, the layer-question would vanish and the name would be more physical. -> surface_carbon_dioxide_mole_flux I would definitely avoid special names, for the sake of clarity. Such a name could still exist as an alias. I like Philip's idea of tendency_of_atmosphere_mole_content_of_carbon_dioxide_due_to_emission but I am not sure if this the exactly correct as the old name surface_carbon_dioxide_mole_flux was probably referring to the net surface exchange, i.e. uptake and emission of CO2, but I am not sure. This could just involve the Henry equilibrium over the ocean, but would be much more complex over vegetation, where aspiration and respiration would be determinant. Maybe this name could summarize all possible processes? tendency_of_atmosphere_mole_content_of_carbon_dioxide_due_to_net_surface_exchange Best regards, Christiane _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
