Hello Jonathan, I totally agree with this.
Cheers, Roy. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jonathan Gregory Sent: 06 October 2011 14:09 To: [email protected] Subject: [CF-metadata] new TEOS-10 standard names 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 -- This message (and any attachments) is for the recipient only. NERC is subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the contents of this email and any reply you make may be disclosed by NERC unless it is exempt from release under the Act. Any material supplied to NERC may be stored in an electronic records management system. _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
