Dear Maarten Thank you for working towards CF compliance.
> - instrument_zenith_angle (degree): "Instrument zenith angle is the the > angle between the line of sight to the instrument and the local vertical" ; There was a recent thread on this email list about names similar to this and maybe this has already come up - I don't remember. Possibly it would be better to make it platform_zenith_angle because there are various other platform_ standard names. Would that be OK? > - solar_instrument_relative_azimuth_angle (degree): "The difference > between the solar azimuth angle and the instrument azimuth angle" ; Personally I would find that a bit hard to understand. Also, I wonder if a sign convention should be specified. To address that, what would your opinion be of angle_of_rotation_from_solar_azimuth_to_platform_azimuth based on existing names of the form angle_of_rotation_from_A_to_B. > - thermodynamic_particle_phase_at_cloud_top (status_flag): "The > thermodynamic phase of particles at the top of the cloud" ; What are the allowed values of this quantity? > Is there a better way do distuingish between > thermodynamic_particle_phase_at_cloud_top and > thermodynamic_particle_phase_at_cloud_top_infrared? There are other instances where we have used a phrase defined_by to make a distinction between closely related geophysical concepts. Is this such a case, where "cloud top" is defined in particular ways? What are these ways? > - geometrical_thickness_of_liquid_water_cloud (m): "Cloud Geometrical > Thickness (cloud top height minus cloud base)" ; Could we omit "geometrical"? In standard names, "thickness" means just this i.e. the vertical extent of a layer. > - effective_radius_of_cloud_condensed_water_particle_at_cloud_top (m): > "Particle effective radius for both liquid and ice water particles" ; That one seems to correspond well to the pattern of some existing names. Best wishes Jonathan _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
