Dear all, This is my first post to the list, so I hope I'm doing things "right". I work at Mercator Ocean, for the European Copernicus Marine Service (http://marine.copernicus.eu/). I am now in charge of making sure that the products we disseminate are CF compliant, and a big part of that task is to ensure that our parameters follow the standard_name table. Most of what we use is already described and available in the table. Thanks for a great job maintaining this table! But some parameters are not yet described.
I found these standard_names in the list of proposals. As far as I can tell, it seems to be agreed they should be added to the standard name table, but it hasn't happened yet. Can you tell me more about their status? - divergence_of_surface_downward_stress Proposed by Bruce Hackett on January 2016 - curl_of_surface_downward_stress Proposed by Bruce Hackett on January 2016 - sea_water_potential_temperature_at_sea_floor Proposed by Jonathan Gregory/Stephen Griffies in January 2015 I also would like to suggest the addition of the following standard_name: "mole_concentration_of_zooplankton_expressed_as_nitrogen_in_sea_water". Standard_names already exist for the microzooplankton and the mesozooplankton, but not for the total zooplankton. A name also exists for the total zooplankton expressed as carbon in sea water. I tried building a definition using the already existing ones for micro and meso zooplankton. - mole_concentration_of_zooplankton_expressed_as_nitrogen_in_sea_water unit: mol/m3 definition: Mole concentration means number of moles per unit volume, also called "molarity", and is used in the construction mole_concentration_of_X_in_Y, where X is a material constituent of Y. A chemical species denoted by X may be described by a single term such as 'nitrogen' or a phrase such as 'nox_expressed_as_nitrogen'. The phrase 'expressed_as' is used in the construction A_expressed_as_B, where B is a chemical constituent of A. It means that the quantity indicated by the standard name is calculated in terms of B alone, neglecting all other chemical constituents of A. Standard names also exist for the mole concentration of a number of components that make up the total zooplankton population, such as mesozooplankton, and microzooplankton. I am also working on preparing the next release of the European Copernicus Marine Service that will include waves. We are planning on introducing 35 variables, of which only 7 have already existing standard_names. What do you think is the best way to proceed? Start a new thread on this topic and propose for each variable a standard_name, unit and definition? Best regards, Elodie Fernandez _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata