Dear Bruce Sorry for slow response. I think Alison's comment would be helpful. I don't have a strong opinion.
Best wishes Jonathan On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 02:46:33PM +0200, Bruce Hackett wrote: > Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 14:46:33 +0200 > From: Bruce Hackett <[email protected]> > To: Jonathan Gregory <[email protected]> > CC: [email protected], Ad Stoffelen <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] standard_names for wind stress curl, wind stress > divergence > > Dear Jonathan, > > Yes, I considered "vertical_component_of_curl_of_surface_downward_stress" > too, but decided to propose the shorter one. I quite understand your desire > for consistency of formulation and have no problem accepting your > alternative. However, since we have already tooled up for my proposal, it > would be more *convenient* for us if you choose > "vertical_component_of_surface_downward_stress_curl". Perhaps you could > define it as an alias? Your call. > > Best regards, > Bruce > > 2016-09-23 18:23 GMT+02:00 Jonathan Gregory <[email protected]>: > > > Dear Bruce > > > > > divergence_of_surface_downward_stress > > > > looks fine. We have a couple of other divergence_of_X names. In view of > > this, > > would it be OK to have > > > > > vertical_component_of_curl_of_surface_downward_stress > > > > instead of > > > > > vertical_component_of_surface_downward_stress_curl > > > > for consistency of syntax, although it's slightly more cumbersome? > > > > Best wishes and thanks > > > > Jonathan > > > > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Bruce Hackett Senior Scientist > Norwegian Meteorological Institute (MET Norway), R & D Dept. > P.O. Box 43 - Blindern e-mail: bruceh (at) met (dot) no > N-0313 Oslo Phone: +47 48 048 958 > NORWAY Fax: +47 22 96 33 80 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
