Dear Heather I second Jim's remark and question. Standard names are intended for quantities that could be compared from different data sources. Is this a quantity with a generally accepted definition for various instruments?
Best wishes Jonathan ----- Forwarded message from Jim Biard <[email protected]> ----- > Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2017 13:00:55 -0400 > From: Jim Biard <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] request for standard name > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:52.0) > Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 > > Hi. > > There needs to be a full definition of the quantity that is more > precise than the sentence below. Keep in mind that not every > quantity needs a standard name. I have one question in particular. > Is this a quantity that is comparable across different radars? > > Grace and peace, > > Jim > > > On 10/5/17 12:21 PM, Heather Brown - NOAA Affiliate wrote: > >Folks, > > > >Are there any opinion and/or thoughts to adding this standard name? > > > >Thanks, > >H > > > >Heather Brown > >Meteorological Archive Specialist - ERT - Federal Government Contractor > >NOAA's NationalCenters for Environmental Information (NCEI) > >151 Patton Ave. > >Asheville, NC 28801-5001 USA > >[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > >Voice: +1 828-271-4863 <tel:%2B1%20828-271-4863>Fax: +1 > >828-271-4328 <tel:%2B1%20828-271-4328> > > > >The newly formed NCEI merges the National Climatic Data Center > >(NCDC), the National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC), and the > >National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC). > >// > >/Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NOAANationalClimaticDataCenter > >Twitter: @NOAANCDC @NOAAOceanData/ > > > >On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 4:58 PM, Brian Nelson - NOAA Federal > ><[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > I would like to request a standard name for a variable that > > defines the quality of a ground based radar based on the combined > > measure of beam blockage and the effects of vertical profile of > > reflectivity. > > > > There is no such standard name available nor does an existing one > > meet the requirements. > > > > The name should be: radar_quality_index > > Units : dimensionless (1) > > > > Thanks > > Brian > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >CF-metadata mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata > > -- > CICS-NC <http://www.cicsnc.org/> Visit us on > Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/cicsnc> *Jim Biard* > *Research Scholar* > Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites NC <http://cicsnc.org/> > North Carolina State University <http://ncsu.edu/> > NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information <http://ncdc.noaa.gov/> > /formerly NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center/ > 151 Patton Ave, Asheville, NC 28801 > e: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > o: +1 828 271 4900 > > /Connect with us on Facebook for climate > <https://www.facebook.com/NOAANCEIclimate> and ocean and geophysics > <https://www.facebook.com/NOAANCEIoceangeo> information, and follow > us on Twitter at @NOAANCEIclimate > <https://twitter.com/NOAANCEIclimate> and @NOAANCEIocngeo > <https://twitter.com/NOAANCEIocngeo>. / > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
