Dear all In preparing the grammar for CF standard names that I describe in my last posting, I found I wanted to propose the following modifications to existing standard names:
snow_soot_content -> soot_content_of_surface_snow snow_thermal_energy_content -> thermal_energy_content_of_surface_snow snow_temperature -> temperature_in_snow liquid_water_content_of_snow_layer -> liquid_water_content_of_surface_snow "snow" can refer both to lying snow (a medium) and falling snow (a species). Existing standard names generally use "surface_snow" for the former, but not always. I propose these changes to remove the ambiguity. water_vapor_pressure -> water_vapor_partial_pressure This quantity is really a partial pressure, and making this change is consistent with the use of "partial_pressure" for "carbon_dioxide" in other names. dissipation_in_atmosphere_boundary_layer -> kinetic_energy_dissipation_in_atmosphere_boundary_layer This change is proposed because "dissipation" alone is vague, and it makes the name consistent with other names that contain the phrase "kinetic_energy_dissipation" referring to the ocean. sea_ice_displacement -> magnitude_of_sea_ice_displacement This change is proposed so that "sea_ice_displacement" is definitely a vector, with components e.g. "eastward_sea_ice_displacement"; at present, it is both a scalar and a vector. Jonathan _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
