Dear Jim > I'd like to propose the new standard name "snow_cover_binary_mask". There is > a NOAA snow coverage extent product that is being put into netCDF format. > The product is derived from the IMS Daily Northern Hemisphere Snow & Ice > Analysis. It is a grid in which cells are marked as snow-covered or not > snow-covered. The GCMD already has the keywords "Cryosphere > Snow/Ice > > Snow Cover" and "Terrestrial Hydrosphere > Snow/Ice > Snow Cover", which are > applied to the source product.
This idea seems fine to me. However, existing names for snow cover refer to it as surface_snow, so I would suggest surface_snow_binary_mask instead. > In this particular product, grid cells are marked as snow-covered when > 42% > of the cell indicates the presence of snow. For generality and to make the data self-describing, I would suggest that the definition of snow_cover_binary_mask should require that the data variable has coordinate variable or a scalar coordinate variable of surface_snow_area_fraction (42% in your case) to specify the threshold. That is an existing standard_name. Best wishes Jonathan _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
