Dear Christophe,

Thinking ahead, I tried to put dobson into cf-python's CF Udunits data
base, but couldn't since it was already there (at Udunits version
2.1.24):

        <unit>
            <def>446.2 micromoles/meter^2</def>
            <aliases>
                <name> <singular>dobson</singular> </name>
                <symbol>DU</symbol>
            </aliases>
        </unit>
 
Would it be too unexpected to give units of "mole/area" to a standard
name which started "equivalent_thickness_"?

All the best,

David

---- Original message from Christophe Lerot (09AM 19 Sep 12)

> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:03:35 +0200
> From: Christophe Lerot <[email protected]>
> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120614
>  Thunderbird/13.0.1
> To: "Cameron-smith, Philip" <[email protected]>
> CC: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] request for new standard name
> 
> Dear Philip,
> 
> Thank you for your reply. In the meantime, I indeed found the
> variable you propose. Dobson Unit would be much more convenient
> instead of m, as it is much more used in the scientific community.
> 
> Best regards
> Christophe

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