Dear All, I am planning to update the standard name table on Monday 11th October to make a number of changes that have been agreed in recent weeks. Please see below for a full list of the planned changes. If anyone spots any errors in the list please contact me as soon as possible.
Best wishes, Alison 1. New names a. CMIP5 clouds/aerosol/radiation names. Proposed by Alison Pamment. convection_time_fraction; 1 shallow_convection_time_fraction; 1 net_downward_shortwave_flux_at_sea_water_surface; W m-2 diffuse_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air; W m-2 diffuse_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky; W m-2 effective_radius_of_cloud_liquid_water_particle_at_liquid_water_cloud_to p; m number_concentration_of_cloud_liquid_water_particles_in_air_at_liquid_wa ter_cloud_top; m-3 number_concentration_of_ice_crystals_in_air_at_ice_cloud_top; m-3 mass_concentration_of_biomass_burning_dry_aerosol_in_air;kg m-3 number_concentration_of_ambient_aerosol_in_air; m-3 number_concentration_of_nucleation_mode_ambient_aerosol_in_air; m-3 number_concentration_of_coarse_mode_ambient_aerosol_in_air; m-3 number_concentration_of_cloud_liquid_water_particles_in_air; m-3 number_concentration_of_ice_crystals_in_air; m-3 surface_diffuse_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air; W m-2 b. CMIP5 carbon cycle names. Proposed by Pierre Friedlingstein and Alison Pamment. tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_carbon_dioxide_expressed_as_carbo n_due_to_anthropogenic_emission; kg m-2 s-1 tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_carbon_dioxide_expressed_as_carbo n_due_to_emission_from_fossil_fuel_combustion; kg m-2 s-1 surface_upward_mass_flux_of_carbon_dioxide_expressed_as_carbon_due_to_em ission_from_natural_sources; kg m-2 s-1 atmosphere_mass_of_carbon_dioxide; kg carbon_content_of_products_of_land_use_change; kg m-2 surface_upward_mass_flux_of_carbon_dioxide_expressed_as_carbon_due_to_em ission_from_fires_excluding_land_use_change; kg m-2 s-1 surface_upward_mass_flux_of_carbon_dioxide_expressed_as_carbon_due_to_em ission_from_grazing; kg m-2 s-1 surface_upward_mass_flux_of_carbon_dioxide_expressed_as_carbon_due_to_em ission_from_crop_harvesting; kg m-2 s-1 surface_net_upward_mass_flux_of_carbon_dioxide_expressed_as_carbon_due_t o_emission_from_anthropogenic_land_use_change; kg m-2 s-1 surface_net_downward_mass_flux_of_carbon_dioxide_expressed_as_carbon_due _to_photosynthesis_and_respiration_and_fires_including_land_use_change; kg m-2 s-1 carbon_mass_flux_into_soil_from_litter; kg m-2 s-1 carbon_mass_flux_into_soil_from_vegetation_excluding_litter; kg m-2 s-1 leaf_carbon_content; kg m-2 wood_carbon_content; kg m-2 root_carbon_content; kg m-2 miscellaneous_living_matter_carbon_content; kg m-2 wood_debris_carbon_content; kg m-2 surface_litter_carbon_content; kg m-2 subsurface_litter_carbon_content; kg m-2 fast_soil_pool_carbon_content; kg m-2 medium_soil_pool_carbon_content; kg m-2 slow_soil_pool_carbon_content; kg m-2 surface_upward_carbon_mass_flux_due_to_plant_respiration_for_biomass_gro wth; kg m-2 s-1 surface_upward_carbon_mass_flux_due_to_plant_respiration_for_biomass_mai ntenance; kg m-2 s-1 net_primary_productivity_of_carbon_accumulated_in_leaves; kg m-2 s-1 net_primary_productivity_of_carbon_accumulated_in_wood; kg m-2 s-1 net_primary_productivity_of_carbon_accumulated_in_roots; kg m-2 s-1 surface_net_downward_mass_flux_of_carbon_dioxide_expressed_as_carbon_due _to_photosynthesis_and_respiration_and_fires_excluding_land_use_change; kg m-2 s-1. To cope with the various fractional vegetation coverage quantities we will use the existing standard name area_fraction and introduce new entries of primary_evergreen_trees, secondary_deciduous_trees, secondary_evergreen_trees, c3_plant_functional_types, c4_plant_functional_types into the area_type table. A number of other additions to the area_type table are still under discussion in the 'CMIP5 carbon cycle area_types' mailing list thread. c. CMIP5 cryosphere names. Proposed by Siobhan O'Farrell and Alison Pamment. heat_flux_into_sea_water_due_to_freezing_of_frazil_ice; Wm-2 surface_downward_heat_flux_in_snow; Wm-2 sea_ice_surface_temperature; K age_of_surface_snow; day permafrost_layer_thickness; m liquid_water_content_of_permafrost_layer; kg m-2 sea_ice_and_surface_snow_amount; kg m-2 sea_ice_salinity; psu age_of_sea_ice; year sea_ice_albedo; 1 integral_of_sea_ice_temperature_wrt_depth_expressed_as_heat_content; Jm-2 tendency_of_sea_ice_amount_due_to_frazil_ice_accumulation_in_leads; kgm-2 s-1 tendency_of_sea_ice_amount_due_to_congelation_ice_accumulation; kg m-2 s-1 tendency_of_sea_ice_amount_due_to_snow_conversion; kg m-2 s-1 tendency_of_surface_snow_melt_amount; kg m-2 s-1 tendency_of_sea_ice_amount_due_to_surface_melting; kg m-2 s-1 tendency_of_sea_ice_amount_due_to_basal_melting; kg m-2 s-1 tendency_of_sea_ice_amount_due_to_lateral_growth_of_ice_floes; kg m-2 s-1 sea_ice_x_transport; kg s-1 sea_ice_y_transport; kg s-1 compressive_strength_of_sea_ice; Pa m sea_water_transport_across_line; kg s-1 eastward_derivative_of_northward_sea_ice_velocity; s-1 northward_derivative_of_eastward_sea_ice_velocity; s-1 upward_x_stress_at_sea_ice_base; Pa upward_y_stress_at_sea_ice_base; Pa tendency_of_sea_ice_area_fraction_due_to_ridging; s-1 A new type of snow_on_sea_ice will be added to the area_type table. ------ 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
