Dear all For various reasons which people have mentioned, I don't think we can make "salinity" an alias for "practical salinity". We cannot be certain what is meant in all existing datasets. This is a potentially a physical change.
Certainly we can and should deprecate "salinity" in its definition, however, for observational datasets. I don't know whether this is necessarily the case for model datasets. Trevor and I had an exchange of emails a while ago discussing the use of non-real-world equations of state. In some cases I don't think it would be justifiable to use the term "practical salinity". That implies more realism than the model has in the case, for instance, where I am using a linear equation of state. Hence I think plain "salinity" should be retained in the standard_name table as a term in its own right, but with the caveat indicating that more precise terms should be used whenever possible and applicable. Cheers Jonathan _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
