Dear CF Community,
This is a follow-up email to my note of 18 November in which I proposed
standard names to fire area, fire temperature, and
fire radiative power. Are there any opinions to what I have proposed below?
Sincerely,
Gary Meehan
On 11/18/2013 6:46 AM, Gary Meehan wrote:
Dear CF community,
I have taken over from the original poster on the subject of new
standard names for
fire area, fire temperature, and fire radiative power. Area, in this
context, is meant
to be in terms of different types of biomass that are climatically and
geographically
defined (e.g., grasslands, forest, etc.).
These definitions have been slightly amended from the originally
posting as follows:
_Fire_Area_
Standard Name: fire_area
Definition: The X_area means the horizontal area occupied by X within
the grid cell.
"Fire area" means the area of detected biomass fire.
Canonical units: m^2
_Fire_Temperature_
Standard_Name: fire_temperature
Definition: The overall temperature of a fire area due to
contributions from smoldering
and flaming components.
Canonical units: K
_Fire_Radiative_Power_
Standard_Name: fire_radiative_power
Definition: The product of the irradiance of a fire scene and the
corresponding fire area.
Canonical units: W
With regards to this last item, radiative power is the only
radiometric quantity for which we are seeking a standard name.
Sincerely,
Gary
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Atmospheric and Environmental Research
131 Hartwell Avenue, Lexington, MA
02421-3126
Tel (781) 761-2228 • Fax (781) 761-2299
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