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On Jan 6, 2014, at 1:47 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > CF-metadata mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
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