Dear Leslie "speed" is used for the scalar magnitude of a velocity. Existing standard names use "velocity" with "upward" e.g. upward_air_velocity and upward_sea_water_velocity
Best wishes Jonathan ----- Forwarded message from "Leslie Hartten (NOAA Affiliate)" <[email protected]> ----- > Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 13:10:41 -0600 > From: "Leslie Hartten (NOAA Affiliate)" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [CF-metadata] radiosonde ascent rate? > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:45.0) > Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 > > Dear List, > > I am putting together a radiosonde dataset and trying hard to > stick with CF Standard Names. I have combed through the table > (http://cfconventions.org/Data/cf-standard-names/current/build/cf-standard-name-table.html) > and this list's archives, but found nothing that would obviously > work as a name for the ascent rate of a radiosonde. At present, I > have taken the name " platform_speed_wrt_ground" and prefaced it > with "upward_", since there is horizontal motion w/r/to the ground > that is not considered in this variable. > > Does anyone have an already legal suggestion for radiosonde ascent > rate? Should I request a new variable, > "upward_platform_speed_wrt_ground"? _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
