Dear Stephen The issue here is that water doesn't only exist in these "bodies" of water viz seas, lakes and river. It also exists in the atmosphere and the ground. For this reason we don't have a standard name of just "water temperature", for instance. We could define "aqua" to mean "sea, lake or river", but this is not really any more self-explanatory than using an abbreviation, I'd say.
Roy pointed out that / would be a dangerous character to use, so I'd next suggest sea+lake+river. I prefer + to - because - looks like _, and it's terribly confusing to have a mixture of - and _. I really would prefer defining "sea" to mean "sea, lake or river" but not everyone who's given an opinion would support that, and I agree that it's not really self-describing - it would be new jargon. Best wishes Jonathan _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
