Dear Heiko I don't believe we have a standard name for that. I think it would be helpful to add more specifics, such as sea_surface_wave (a phrase that appears in other standard names), if that's applicable.
Best wishes Jonathan ----- Forwarded message from Heiko Klein <[email protected]> ----- > Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 17:57:33 +0200 > From: Heiko Klein <[email protected]> > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130329 > Thunderbird/17.0.5 > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: [CF-metadata] standard-name for stokes drift > > Hi, > > I'm looking for the standard-name for stokes drift for a wave-model: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stokes_drift > > > It's defined by ECMWF as: > http://www.ecmwf.int/publications/manuals/d/gribapi/param/filter=grib1/order=paramId/order_type=asc/p=1/search=stokes/table=all/ > > I couldn't find any, and if this is really the case, I would propose > something like > > stokes_drift_x_velocity > stokes_drift_y_velocity > > > units: m/s > > Best regards, > > Heiko > > -- > Dr. Heiko Klein Tel. + 47 22 96 32 58 > Development Section / IT Department Fax. + 47 22 69 63 55 > Norwegian Meteorological Institute http://www.met.no > P.O. Box 43 Blindern 0313 Oslo NORWAY > _______________________________________________ > CF-metadata mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata ----- End forwarded message ----- _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
