Dear Martin As a suggestion, lakes and rivers together could be called "inland water" - that is a commonly used phrase. I think it would be most naturally included in the land area too.
Best wishes Jonathan ----- Forwarded message from [email protected] ----- > Date: Fri, 5 May 2017 14:00:16 +0000 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected] > Subject: [CF-metadata] An area type for non-ocean water surfaces > > Hello All, > > Stephane Senesi has raised the issue that some CMIP6 models may have a finite > area of river water, and this should be recorded as an area type > (https://github.com/cmip6dr/CMIP6_DataRequest_VariableDefinitions/issues/85). > <https://github.com/cmip6dr/CMIP6_DataRequest_VariableDefinitions/issues/85> > I suspect that such models may also represet lakes. > > We could just add a "river" area type. Ideally, we should make clear how this > relates to other area types. E.g. is "river" part of "land", or separate from > it? The definition of the CMIP5 residualFrac variable implies that lakes are > considered as part of land (though it is not clear whether this applies to > all lakes, or just sub-grid scale lakes -- resolved by perhaps 1 or 2 CMIP5 > models). > > regards, > Martin > > _______________________________________________ > 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
