Dear Jonathan K and degC have the same dimensions and either is acceptable, I would say.
Cheers Jonathan ----- Forwarded message from Jonathan Wrotny <[email protected]> ----- > Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:47:45 -0400 > From: Jonathan Wrotny <[email protected]> > To: Jonathan Gregory <[email protected]> > CC: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] new standard name: atmosphere_stability_k_index > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130509 > Thunderbird/17.0.6 > > Dear Jonathan Gregory, > > I would like to make one correction to the > "atmosphere_stability_k_index" proposal. The GOES-R product that is > motivating this submission will have units of degrees Celsius, but > in order to have consistency with some of the other atmosphere > stability indices, the canonical units should be Kelvins. So, the > updated proposal is then: > > Standard Name:atmosphere_stability_k_index > > 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. > > Canonical Units:K > > > Sincerely, > > Jonathan Wrotny > > On 6/4/2013 5:33 AM, Jonathan Gregory wrote: > >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 > ----- End forwarded message ----- _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
