Dear all I agree with Steve and Roy about this:
> > Now UDUnits has "molecule" and "byte". They (Steve) > > are receptive to well-justified proposals, so do not feel daunted > > in transmitting to them the suggestion for "photon". > > Adding such units is the wrong way to go about solving the problem of > adding quantity-semantics to data values. It would be much better to have > the names of the variables be things like > > "number_of_tents" > "number_of_clouds" etc. > > and whose units were "1" than to try to incorporate such semantic > information into a unit That is exactly what the CF standard says. From Sect 3.1 on "Units": "Descriptive information about dimensionless quantities, such as sea-ice concentration, cloud fraction, probability, etc., should be given in the long_name or standard_name attributes rather than the units." Best wishes Jonathan _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
