Dear Andreas, This might sound like a silly question, but what do you mean by "air"? Do you mean just the mixture of gases or do you mean everything that might be found in a random sample of air, including aerosol particles and precipitation? If you mean strictly the gases, then I would suggest mole_concentration_of_gas_molecules_in_air which would have canonicalunits of mol m-3 or if you want to express it as a simple number per unit volume we could have number_concentration_of_gas_molecules_in_air (m-3).
If you want to include all constituents of the air parcel, then you would need something like mole_concentration_of_molecules_in_air or perhaps even better mole_concentration_of_air both of which would have canonical units of mol m-3. The name number_concentration_of_air doesn't sound very meaningful in English, but you could have number_concentration_of_molecules_in_air (m-3). Best wishes, Alison ------ Alison Pamment Tel: +44 1235 778065 NCAS/British Atmospheric Data Centre Email: [email protected] STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory R25, 2.22 Harwell Oxford, Didcot, OX11 0QX, U.K. >-----Original Message----- > From: Andreas Hilboll [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 02 July 2014 10:46 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [CF-metadata] mole_concentration_of_air_in_air? > > Hi guys, > > I'm wondering how to express the air number density, i.e., the number of > air molecules per unit volumne (in mole cm-3), in terms of CF standard > names? > > -- Andreas. > _______________________________________________ > CF-metadata mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata -- Scanned by iCritical. _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
