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:

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> 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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Birgit Hassler
NOAA/ESRL 
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Chemistry & Climate Processes
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