Dear Alison, Many thanks for this excellent idea.
You are suggesting mass_ratio_of_X_to_Y. To my knowledge we would rather say mass_mixing_ratio. This would make the names longer, but the use of mixing ratio is more common, I would say. However, although I like your idea a lot, I am concerned by the very significant changes it would imply. I fear that modelers who have just started to implement CF and who now see that the standard names change substantially with time, might begin to doubt their value as a standard. Therefore I would rather suggest to stick to the existing names and state in the explanations that there is an exception for water vapor, a meteorological variable and not an atmospheric chemistry one. Best regards, Christiane -- ====================================================================== Christiane Textor Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement Unite Mixte de Recherche CEA-CNRS-UVSQ LSCE/IPSL, CEA Saclay, Orme des Merisiers, Bat. 701, Piece 3b, Point Courrier 129 F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex FRANCE mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel ++33 1 69 08 34 07 Fax ++33 1 69 08 77 16 GEOmon scientific coordinator http://www.geomon.eu ====================================================================== _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
