Dear Johnathan, “number_concentration_of_ozone_molecules_in_air” as standard name would be ok, yes.
Thanks for your help with this! Cheers, Birgit On Oct 30, 2014, at 10:12 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Send CF-metadata mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of CF-metadata digest..." > > > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 15:57:13 +0000 > From: Jonathan Gregory <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [CF-metadata] Suggestion for a new entry to the list of CF > standard names > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > 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 > > Birgit Hassler NOAA/ESRL Chemical Sciences Division Chemistry & Climate Processes 325 Broadway - R/CSD8 Boulder, CO 80305-3328 USA phone: 303-497-4182 fax: 303-497-5686 email: [email protected] _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
