Dear John and Karl Sorry, I hadn't seen your emails before making my comment.
I think it would be somewhat inconsistent with other names to include wind_speed in the gust vector component names, because we use "speed" to mean the *magnitude* of a vector. [xy]_velocity would be OK and consistent with other names. We also have the existing names [xy]_wind and [eastward|northward]_wind, which do not include "velocity", so I made my comment presuming that the existing names imply plain "wind" means "velocity of wind". Best wishes Jonathan ----- Forwarded message from John Graybeal <[email protected]> ----- > Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 15:57:44 -0700 > From: John Graybeal <[email protected]> > To: Jonathan Gregory <[email protected]> > CC: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] Request for new standard-names: graupel, > wind_gust, inland_water_area_fraction > X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1510) > > > On May 22, 2014, at 14:16, Jonathan Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Dear Heiko > > > >> x_wind_gust: > > > > We already have a standard name of wind_speed_of_gust for the magnitude of > > the gust velocity, and we x_wind and y_wind for components of wind. Would > > be OK to have x_wind_of_gust and y_wind_of_gust for consistency? > > I consider x_wind_of_gust ambiguous -- wind speed, wind direction, wind_what? > (Reference previous suggestion.) > > I rather wish x_wind and y_wind were deprecated in favor of x_wind_speed and > y_wind_speed. > > John > > ------------------------------------ > John Graybeal > Marine Data Manager > > M +1 408 675-5445 > skype: graybealski > Marinexplore > 920 Stewart Drive > Sunnyvale 94085 > California, USA > www.marinexplore.com > ----- End forwarded message ----- _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
