Please provide guidance on which CF Standard Names to use for sea water surface velocity. We will soon have a new buoy with an acoustic current meter (ACM) that records speed (m/s) and direction (degrees) of the surface currents. Are these the recommended CF Standard Names to attribute for these measurement parameters?:
- sea_water_speed - direction_of_sea_water_velocity The latter does not indicate the "from" or "to" direction of the variable, which concerns me. I am used to applying "wind_from_direction" or "wind_to_direction" for wind measurements to solve this ambiguity. Thoughts on replacing this with "sea_water_from_direction" and "sea_water_to_direction"? Also, I note there are CF Standard Names that exist for "surface_eastward_sea_water_velocity" and "surface_northward_sea_water_velocity". I would expect and recommend the addition of the following surface names: - surface_sea_water_speed - surface_sea_water_from_direction - surface_sea_water_to_direction Please advise. Thanks!, John Maurer Data System Engineer Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System (PacIOOS) University of Hawaii at Manoa
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