Dear Jonathan This appears to be a very ad-hoc quantity, and I agree it would not make sense to try to devise a general physical name for it. Adding atmosphere_stability, as with the total totals index, provides useful information on what sort of quantity is it, taking a step towards making it self-explanatory.
Thanks Jonathan ----- Forwarded message from Jonathan Wrotny <[email protected]> ----- > Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 15:42:05 -0400 > From: Jonathan Wrotny <[email protected]> > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130509 > Thunderbird/17.0.6 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [CF-metadata] new standard name: atmosphere_stability_k_index > > Dear CF board: > > I would like to propose the following standard name: > > atmosphere_stability_k_index > > with the associate definition: > > The atmosphere_stability_k_index is an index that indicates the > potential of severe convection and is often referred to a simply the > k index. The index is derived from the difference in air temperature > between 850 and 500 hPa, the dew point temperature at 850 hPa, and > the difference between the air temperature and the dew point > temperature at 700 hPa. > > and the canonical units of: > > C > > NOTE: This proposed product using fixed pressure levels of 850, > 700, and 500 hPa for calculating the index which are unique to this > product, thus these values are included in the definition. > > Sincerely, > > Jonathan > _______________________________________________ > 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
