Hi Stephane,
Would one or both of the following two standard names cover your use-case? The
first is in effect your residual, I think.
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standard name: water_surface_height_above_reference_datum
canon units: m
description: 'Water surface height above reference datum' means the height of
the upper surface of a body of liquid water, such as sea, lake or river, above
an arbitrary reference datum. The altitude of the datum should be provided in a
variable with standard name water_surface_reference_datum_altitude. The surface
called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere.
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standard name: water_surface_reference_datum_altitude
canon units: m
description: Altitude is the (geometric) height above the geoid, which is the
reference geopotential surface. The geoid is similar to mean sea level. 'Water
surface reference datum altitude' means the altitude of the arbitrary datum
referred to by a quantity with standard name
'water_surface_height_above_reference_datum'. The surface called "surface"
means the lower boundary of the atmosphere.
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Regards,
Phil
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Sent: 26 January 2012 13:58
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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
Stéphane Tarot (Ifremer)
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