Hi all, Since they are going to be used in conjunction, at least some of the time, I favor the parallel construction of original_air_pressure_of_lifted_parcel and final_air_pressure_of_lifted_parcel. It makes the semantic link between the two quantities more obvious.
Cheers, --Seth On Wed, 05 Jun 2013 13:47:24 -0400 Jonathan Wrotny <[email protected]> wrote: >Dear Jonathan G, > >I follow your logic and what you say makes sense - "ambient air" is implied as >the parcel destination by the product standard name. But, to me, it seems >that "ambient air pressure" is too general for application to the lifted-type >stability products, especially since two coordinate variables are sometimes >needed. In effect, the original air pressure is an ambient air pressure, too, >so there is not enough differentiation. Plus, for consistency, the use of >'original' and 'final' is nice. I think we had a vote this way from Seth, >too. > >Just my thoughts - I can go either way, ultimately. > >-Jonathan Wrotny > >On 6/5/2013 1:00 PM, Jonathan Gregory wrote: >> Dear Jonathan >> >> Thanks for your patience! I am pretty happy with this, but I will just have >> a last go with "ambient", to see what you think. My logic is that >> >>> >temperature_difference_between_ambient_air_and_air_lifted_adiabatically_from_the_surface >>> temperature_difference_between_ambient_air_and_air_lifted_adiabatically >> implicitly seem to regard "ambient air" as the destination. Hence it could >> make sense to use >> >>> original_air_pressure_of_lifted_parcel >>> ambient_air_pressure, or even just air_pressure (an existing stdname) >> as the coordinates. It sounds a bit more physical than "finish". >> >> Best wishes >> >> Jonathan >> _______________________________________________ >> CF-metadata mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata > >_______________________________________________ >CF-metadata mailing list >[email protected] >http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
