Dear Randy If it is very product-specific, is it really a geophysical quantity which needs a standard name? I mean, are there data from several sources for this quantity which should be regarded as comparable, and which therefore should have a common standard name?
If the answer is Yes, then I would suggest you propose a standard name which explicit names the algorithm, like e.g. isccp_cloud_area_fraction. Best wishes Jonathan ----- Forwarded message from "[email protected]" <[email protected]> ----- > From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 08:28:15 -0400 > Subject: [CF-metadata] how to represent a non-standard error > > > > Folks: the GOES-R ground system generates a derived motion winds product. > Accompaning each wind speed & direction in the product is the amount of > error associated withe the vector. This error is not a standard_error, but > an error estimate based on a custom algorithm. Because this is not a > standard_error, it would seem that using a standard_error standard_name > modifier would be misleading. Any thoughts on how to represent this > product-specific error in the NetCDF file ? (The best idead I could come up > with so far is to establish an ancillary data relationwhip between the wind > speed/direction variables and the error variable, and use the error > variable's long_name to describe the error) very respectfully, randy > _______________________________________________ > 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
