Dear Jonathan, Many of the changes proposed in this thread have now been agreed. I will send a separate post regarding the biogeochemistry names. The other two issues that remain open are summarized below.
7) surface snow > > > > In the case of snow_temperature -> temperature_in_snow did you mean > that > > it should be changed to temperature_in_surface_snow? > > I didn't, but I agree that would be more consistent, if acceptable and > if > it makes sense to you. I think this name only makes sense in the context of lying snow. The following alias will be created at the next update of the standard name table: snow_temperature -> temperature_in_surface_snow > > > I am wondering about the interpretation of the existing names > > snow_density and snow_grain_size. I suppose these could equally > apply > > to snow as a species or as a medium, but I wonder if they are > primarily > > intended as surface snow quantities? Currently neither has any > > definition and I think we should try to give some explanation as to > how > > these names are meant to be used. > > I am pretty sure they are currently used for lying snow. OK, thank you. To maintain consistency with the other surface snow quantities I propose that we create two more aliases and add at least brief definitions: snow_density -> density_of_surface_snow snow_grain_size -> grain_size_of_surface_snow 8) water vapour partial pressure > > Jonathan wrote: > > > 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. > > I agree that we should call this a partial pressure. I notice that > this > and a number of other water vapor names are missing any reference to a > medium and although it's quite obvious that the medium should be air, I > think it should be added to the names for consistency. Thus I suggest > creating the following aliases: > > eastward_water_vapor_flux -> eastward_water_vapor_flux_in_air > northward_water_vapor_flux -> northward_water_vapor_flux_in_air > water_vapor_pressure -> water_vapor_partial_pressure_in_air > water_vapor_saturation_deficit -> water_vapor_saturation_deficit_in_air > These aliases are now agreed and will be created at the next update of the table. 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
