Dear Tomoo, Thank you for your proposals for new cloud feedback standard names. I agree that the wording of the names is fine. I assume that 'cloud_microphysics' is the sum of many of the processes such as bergeron-findeison, heterogeneous and homogeneous nucleation, etc., but does it also include evaporation/condensation for example? If you could list which processes are included in cloud_microphysics that would be very helpful for writing the definitions of the names.
Best wishes, Alison ------ Alison Pamment Tel: +44 1235 778065 NCAS/British Atmospheric Data Centre Fax: +44 1235 446314 Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Email: [email protected] Chilton, Didcot, OX11 0QX, U.K. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:cf-metadata- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Tomoo Ogura > Sent: 26 April 2010 10:18 > To: Jonathan Gregory; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] proposal for new standard names > > Dear Jonathan > > Thanks for your reply. I agree with your suggestions and my proposal > has been updated as follows: > > * microphysics replaced by cloud_microphysics > * Bergeron_Findeisen written in lower case > > tendency_of_mass_fraction_of_stratiform_cloud_liquid_water_in_air > tendency_of_mass_fraction_of_stratiform_cloud_liquid_water_in_air_due_t > o_cloud_microphysics > tendency_of_mass_fraction_of_stratiform_cloud_liquid_water_in_air_due_t > o_boundary_layer_mixing > tendency_of_mass_fraction_of_stratiform_cloud_liquid_water_in_air_due_t > o_bergeron_findeisen_process_to_cloud_ice > tendency_of_mass_fraction_of_stratiform_cloud_ice_in_air > tendency_of_mass_fraction_of_stratiform_cloud_ice_in_air_due_to_cloud_m > icrophysics > tendency_of_mass_fraction_of_stratiform_cloud_ice_in_air_due_to_boundar > y_layer_mixing > tendency_of_mass_fraction_of_stratiform_cloud_ice_in_air_due_to_bergero > n_findeisen_process_from_cloud_liquid > tendency_of_mass_fraction_of_stratiform_cloud_condensed_water_in_air > tendency_of_mass_fraction_of_stratiform_cloud_condensed_water_in_air_du > e_to_cloud_microphysics > tendency_of_mass_fraction_of_stratiform_cloud_condensed_water_in_air_du > e_to_boundary_layer_mixing > > Best wishes > Tomoo > --- > Tomoo OGURA > National Institute for Environmental Studies > 16-2 Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8506 Japan > Phone +81-29-850-2484 Fax +81-29-850-2960 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jonathan Gregory" <[email protected]> > To: "Tomoo Ogura" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 4:02 PM > Subject: [CF-metadata] proposal for new standard names > > > > Dear Tomoo > > > > These names looks OK to me, except I'd suggest > due_to_cloud_microphysics > > instead of just due_to_microphysics, in order to be more explicit; in > any > > case, "cloud microphysics" is a commonly used phrase. Standard names > are > > all > > lower case, so bergeron_findeisen, rather than Bergeron_Findeisen. > > > > Best wishes > > > > Jonathan > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CF-metadata mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata -- Scanned by iCritical. _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
