Hello Jonathan, It's not absolutely clear to me that 'tidal_level' is the result of a prediction - I've seen the term used in association with measurements. What do people think of using 'predicted_level' instead?
Cheers, Roy. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jonathan Gregory Sent: 26 January 2012 14:44 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] Sea surface height Dear Stephane I don't think "anomaly" is quite right here. It generally means the difference from a multi-year climatology. You mean the difference of SSH from the tidal prediction, if I understand correctly. That's a more specific concept which deserves a special name. Would sea_surface_height_above_tidal_level make sense (tide being a time-dependent level), for instance? Cheers Jonathan On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 02:58:17PM +0100, Stephane TAROT wrote: > Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:58:17 +0100 > From: Stephane TAROT <[email protected]> > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 > Thunderbird/8.0 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [CF-metadata] Sea surface height > > Hi, > > In the MyOcean european project, we are using > sea_surface_height_above_sea_level for the insitu data mesured by tide gauges. > > By substracting these measures and the predicted tide sea level, we calculate > the residual due to atmospheric (pressure and wind) conditions. > > Is there an existing standard name for the residual ? > Should we consider that the predicted tide sea level is a sort of climatology > and therefore use "sea_surface_height_above_sea_level_anomaly" for the > residual > ? > > > Thanks for your help > > St?phane Tarot (Ifremer) > > > _______________________________________________ > CF-metadata mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata _______________________________________________ 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
