Dear All, It's becoming clear that we need a Standard Name component to cover boolean values whose trigger point may then be specified elsewhere as Jonathan stated. In the biological domain, the syntax 'presence_of_x' where x is a taxon name is often used. Could this be adopted giving the Standard Name 'presence_of_surface_snow' for Jim and opening the door for a raft of Standard Names to cover Ute's use case?
Cheers, Roy. ________________________________________ From: CF-metadata [cf-metadata-boun...@cgd.ucar.edu] On Behalf Of Ute Brönner [ute.broen...@sintef.no] Sent: 05 September 2012 18:40 To: Jim Biard Cc: Heather Brown; Raymond Nepstad; cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu; Alisa Young Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] Proposal for standard name "snow_cover_binary_mask" Hei, Wouldn't that feature come in handy for other grids as well where we would like to mark sth. like "exposed" or "not exposed"? So I would suggest to make it snow independent. Regards, Ute Am 05.09.2012 um 18:31 schrieb "Jim Biard" <jim.bi...@noaa.gov<mailto:jim.bi...@noaa.gov>>: Hi. 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. In this particular product, grid cells are marked as snow-covered when > 42% of the cell indicates the presence of snow. I'd appreciate any thoughts or comments. Grace and peace, Jim Jim Biard Research Scholar Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites Remote Sensing and Applications Division National Climatic Data Center 151 Patton Ave, Asheville, NC 28801-5001 jim.bi...@noaa.gov<mailto:jim.bi...@noaa.gov> 828-271-4900 _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu<mailto:CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu> http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu 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 CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
