Hi Matt,

I am also interested in this suggestion.

My understanding of this story of chlorophyll//chlorophyll-a in CF was, 
approximately, that we may use the same standard name for both, precise the 
wavelength as a size-one coordinate variable. And then just add "Chlorophyll-A" 
in the long name attribute..

But I am absolutely not sure of that, it is something that could be clarified 
thanks to your request. I added Frederic Melin in copy, he may probably help 
us. 


Olivier.

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Envoyé : lundi 19 avril 2010 19:16
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Objet : [CF-metadata] request CF standard name for chlorophyll-aconcentration 
in sea water

All,

on behalf of the OceanSITES project (www.oceansites.org), I would like to 
introduce a new standard name for the chlorophyll-a concentration in sea 
water.

I have found an existing standard name for chlorophyll concentration in sea 
water, but not explicitly chlorophyll-a. I know that there are measurement 
techniques that measure one but not the other, not to mention possible 
inclusion of phaeopigments. Hence the need to be more specific.


The existing name is:
mass_concentration_of_chlorophyll_in_sea_water

I found it on:
http://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/documents/cf-standard-names/standard-name-
table/13/cf-standard-name-table.html


Based on that, I would propose the following new standard name:

mass_concentration_of_chlorophyll_a_in_sea_water

Canonical units would be: kg m-3


Any objections?

Regards, MATT LANKHORST


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