Dear Tim > Just a quick comment on the proposed standard name > > distance_from_sun (m) > > It seems ambiguous to me, as a distance implies a measurement between two > points, and this specifies only one.
In this case, the other point is the place where the measurement applies, so the distance from the sun is a coordinate for the geophysical quantity, like e.g. height_above_reference_ellipsoid or projection_x_coordinate, which are also standard names for coordinates in units of distance. We could use the same coordinate name for any quantity one might measure in space as a function of distance from the sun, not just the irradiance, and not necessarily at the location of the Earth or any other body. Best wishes Jonathan _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
