Dear Dirk For these quantities I believe you can use the existing standard names of sea_ice_area, volume and extent. To specify the area over which the integral applies, you can supply size-1 coordinate variables or scalar coordinate variables, with bounds, for latitude and longitude. For the entire hemispheres I suppose longitude is not needed, and it would be sufficient to supply latitude coordinates with bounds of -90,0 and 0,90 degN.
Best wishes Jonathan ----- Forwarded message from Dirk Notz <[email protected]> ----- > Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 09:53:08 +0200 > From: Dirk Notz <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [CF-metadata] CMIP6 Sea Ice MIP: Integrated quantities > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 > Thunderbird/38.8.0 > > Dear CF community, > > as a service to the scientific community, the CMIP6 Sea-Ice MIP suggests > to save six integrated sea-ice quantities from CMIP6 model simulations. > These are total sea-ice area, total sea-ice volume and total sea-ice > extent in the Northern and in the Southern hemisphere. > > To indicate that we ask for integrated quantities in a specific region, > we propose to add the following new variable names, since the existing > variables such as "sea_ice_volume" only describe the sea-ice state > within individual grid cells: > > 1.sea_ice_volume_in_region > total volume of sea ice in a region > > 2.sea_ice_area_in_region > total area of sea ice in a region > > 3.sea_ice_extent_in_region > Total area of all grid cells that are covered by a minimum of a given > area fraction [usually 15 %) of sea ice in a region > > We look forward to hearing your feedback, guidance and input on these > suggestions. > > Thank you very much, > > Dirk Notz > > -- > > > ---- > Dr. Dirk Notz > http://www.mpimet.mpg.de/~notz.dirk > _______________________________________________ > CF-metadata mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata ----- End forwarded message ----- _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
