On 12/17/10 9:32 AM, Jeff deLaBeaujardiere wrote:
Mohamed, do any of the names suggested below meet your needs?
Some tide effects on sea surface heights elevations are captured by:
sea_surface_height_amplitude_due_to_earth_tide
sea_surface_height_amplitude_due_to_equilibrium_ocean_tide
sea_surface_height_amplitude_due_to_geocentric_ocean_tide
sea_surface_height_amplitude_due_to_non_equilibrium_ocean_tide
sea_surface_height_amplitude_due_to_pole_tide
Perhaps you will find what you need here, otherwise they probably need
to be extended?..
I think the OP's question really is:
should one use a different standard name for a predicted, rather than a
measured, quantity?
I think the answer is no, as I've seen all sorts of model output without
anything in the standard name indication anything about it being a
forecast -- I think that information should be provided by the file-wide
meta-data, i.e. your users should know what the general content of the
file are.
But I'm no expert.
-Chris
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