Dear Jonathan and Philip, Thanks for your responses regarding the large_scale/stratiform names.
> > 5) large_scale and stratiform > > Jonathan asked: > > What's the difference between large_scale and stratiform? > > I don't think there's any real difference! Historically, we seem to > have used 'large_scale' for precipitation originating from > large_scale/stratiform cloud and 'stratiform' for the cloud itself (the > one exception being large_scale_cloud_area_fraction). In recent > standard name table versions (12-14) we've introduced a lot more > stratiform cloud names for cloud feedback studies related to CMIP5. > There are only 13 names referring to 'large_scale' and it strikes me as > being a modelling jargon term, so I propose to create aliases to change > them all to use 'stratiform'. Do you agree? > It seems that we are all agreed to standardize on stratiform. The following 15 aliases will be created at the next update of the standard name table. large_scale_cloud_area_fraction -> stratiform_cloud_area_fraction large_scale_graupel_flux -> stratiform_graupel_flux large_scale_precipitation_amount -> stratiform_precipitation_amount large_scale_precipitation_flux -> stratiform_precipitation_flux large_scale_rainfall_amount -> stratiform_rainfall_amount large_scale_rainfall_flux -> stratiform_rainfall_flux large_scale_rainfall_rate -> stratiform_rainfall_rate large_scale_snowfall_amount -> stratiform_snowfall_amount large_scale_snowfall_flux -> stratiform_snowfall_flux lwe_large_scale_precipitation_rate -> lwe_stratiform_precipitation_rate lwe_large_scale_snowfall_rate -> lwe_stratiform_snowfall_rate lwe_thickness_of_large_scale_precipitation_amount -> lwe_thickness_of_stratiform_precipitation_amount lwe_thickness_of_large_scale_snowfall_amount -> lwe_thickness_of_stratiform_snowfall_amount thickness_of_large_scale_rainfall_amount -> thickness_of_stratiform_rainfall_amount thickness_of_large_scale_snowfall_amount -> thickness_of_stratiform_snowfall_amount 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. -- Scanned by iCritical. _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
