what about area_fraction_defined_by_solar_zenith_angle ?
"defined_by" exists in a couple of other standard names. ---------------------------------------- From: "Jonathan Gregory" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 12:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [CF-metadata] new standard names: day, night, and day/night terminator area_fractions Dear Jim I agree that "within stated bounds" is explicit and self-explanatory but I feel that we shouldn't need to say that, because this is true for any variable at all which has coordinates with bounds, and we have not said it in any other standard name. It should be implied by saying there is a dependence on a coordinate, I think. That is why I suggested "as a function of" i.e. X_as_a_function_of_Y should indicate that X has Y as a coordinate, and it's likely or required that the coordinates have bounds. It's quite surprising that we have not needed such a construction before. Mostly one does not have to state what X depends on because it's obvious what it could depend on e.g. location and time. Sometimes extra words appear implying dependence on other coordinates e.g. "spectral", indicating a dependence on wavelength. Best wishes Jonathan _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
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