Thanks, Jonathan and Roy! Your suggestions sound fine by me. Cheers, John Maurer Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System (PacIOOS) University of Hawaii at Manoa
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 09:05:08 +0000 > From: "Lowry, Roy K." <r...@bodc.ac.uk> > To: Jonathan Gregory <j.m.greg...@reading.ac.uk>, > "cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu" <cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu> > Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] request for new CF standard_name: CDOM > Message-ID: > < > he1pr0601mb1946c0d26c72eb4099d0efa799...@he1pr0601mb1946.eurprd06.prod.outlook.com > > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Dear Jonathan, > > Although long-winded your suggestion of: > > > concentration_of_colored_dissolved_organic_matter_in_sea_water_expressed_as_equivalent_mass_fraction_of_quinine_sulfate_dihydrate > > has the great advantage of preventing any confusion between this > measurement and a true CDOM concentration determined by some other method. > Having mass_fraction in there is particularly valuable as when we > encountered this measurement the stock solutions used to calibrate the > sensors had the QSD concentrations expressed in nM rather than ppb. > > I also agree dimensionless is the best choice for the Canonical Unit. > > Cheers, Roy. >
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