Dear Birgit

> standard name: Ozone number density 
> alternatively: Ozone number concentration
> unit: molecules/m^3
> 
> Some ozone satellite instruments (like the ?Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas 
> Experiment?, SAGE, or the ?Polar Ozone and Aerosol Measurment?, POAM) measure 
> ozone in their native unit number density (number of ozone molecules that are 
> present in a m^3 of air).
> We want to add an ozone data set to the National Climate Data Center (NCDC), 
> and have to be CF compliant. Ozone number density does not seem to be on the 
> CF standard names list, and we would therefore like to add it. 

There are several standard_names of the form number_concentration_of_X_in_air
in m-3, so I suggest this one shoudl conform to that pattern i.e.
number_concentration_of_ozone_molecules_in_air. Would that be OK?

Cheers

Jonathan
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