Hi Nan, Quite sometime ago we updated a bunch of CF entries to reflect the new TEOS-10 names: http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/pipermail/cf-metadata/2011/022581.html
With these new entries we did in fact get salinity units for absolute and preformed salinity variables. Other than PSS-78 (which is the default storage format in databases) and the current 1e-3 used in the CMIP notation I’m not sure how much further things can be taken here..? Cheers, P From: Karl Taylor <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Friday, May 22, 2015 at 10:22 AM To: "Durack , Paul J." <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Fwd: Re: [CF-metadata] Salinity units FYI -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] Salinity units Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 13:03:24 -0400 From: Nan Galbraith <[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Organization: WHOI To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>, OceanSITES Data Management Team <[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]> Hello all - It's been a long time, but is anyone interested in re-visiting the subject of units for practical salinity in CF? I was recently notified that my salinity data was likely to be overlooked by some users, because I'd used '1' as the units, not '.001'. Somehow, I'd forgotten the (long-ago) discussion on the CF list about salinity units. Some members of the OceanSITES project are interested in revising our format spec to encourage the use of '1' as an indication that salinity does not have units - but, of course, we'd mostly rather remain CF-compliant. Thanks for any feedback on this. Cheers - Nan On 6/17/09 2:48 AM, Lowry, Roy K wrote: > Dear All, > > During an exercise with Alison mapping the CF Standard Names to a > units vocabulary in the BODC vocabulary server I noticed that the > units for salinity were '1.00E-03', i.e. parts per thousand. My > understanding in that since the introduction of the Practical > Salinity Scale that salinity is dimensionless with units of '1'. Is > there agreement for our changing the units in the Standard Name > table? > > Cheers, Roy. -- ******************************************************* * Nan Galbraith Information Systems Specialist * * Upper Ocean Processes Group Mail Stop 29 * * Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution * * Woods Hole, MA 02543 (508) 289-2444 * ******************************************************* _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
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