Hi All,
While working through recent std_name proposals for radiative transfer
quantities, I encountered what appear to me to be duplicate vocabulary within
the existing std_name list for a couple of terms:
1) _attentuation_ and _extinction_ appear to have the same physical meaning,
although the comments note that attenuation is more commonly used for radar and
extinction is more commonly used for visible light. The number of std_names
using each of them is 2 and 1, respectively, so it should be easy to fix with
aliases.
2) _backscattering_ and _backwards_scattering_ also appear to have the same
definition. The number of std_names using each of them is 1 and 4,
respectively, so it should be easy to fix with aliases. Although it is less
common, I prefer _backscattering_ because it is a single word, and will
generalize better to _forwardscattering_.
Am I missing an important distinction with either of these pairs?
Best wishes,
Philip
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Dr Philip Cameron-Smith, [email protected], Lawrence Livermore National Lab.
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