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On Jan 6, 2014, at 1:47 PM, [email protected] wrote:

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> what about area_fraction_defined_by_solar_zenith_angle ?
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> "defined_by" exists in a couple of other standard names.
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> 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
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> 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
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