Dear Jonathan W and Seth You agree on this, and I don't strongly disagree. OK then; thanks for considering it.
Cheers Jonathan On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 01:47:24PM -0400, Jonathan Wrotny wrote: > Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 13:47:24 -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: Jonathan Gregory <[email protected]> > CC: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] atmosphere stability indices > > 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
