Dear Jonathan,
Thank you for your feedback. I hope some experts on atmospheric
chemistry will also comment on the proposal.
I just realized that I missed standard names starting with
"atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to". These are 13 additional standard
names. But no additional special cases arise.
In the case of "atmosphere_mass_content_of_..." I added "_in_air" in
the end, which was not there before.
Actually I don't think we should do this, because atmosphere_ and _in_air are
alternatives in standard names, similarly ocean_ and _in_sea_water. The former
denotes a property of the entire medium, the latter of the local fluid.
OK. Sounds reasonable.
(a) ..._dry_particulate_particulate_organic_matter...
Thus, we had "particulate" twice. We could also call it
(a) ..._dry_particulate_organic_matter...
which would be less confusing to read. But it would break the rule.
I'm in favour of removing the duplication; particulate_particulate would look
like a mistake and cause confusion.
OK.
the renaming convention in the beginning yields a name structure like
"SIZE-CLASS_WHAT" with "SIZE-CLASS" in "particulate", "pm10",
"pm2p5", ... and with "WHAT" in "nitrate", "ammonium", ... . In this
situation, we don't have a "WHAT" because we mean "all compounds" or
"total". Should we leave it like that or should we insert something
for "WHAT"?
Do you mean e.g. mass_concentration_of_ambient_pm10_in_air? I think that
is fine. I understand pm10 to mean pm10 particles of any species.
Yes, standard names of this type.
that "dry pm10" + "water in pm10" = "ambient pm10". This would be
a consistent formulation.
But it is not intuitive ... .
Do you mean e.g.
mass_fraction_of_ambient_pm10_in_air
mass_fraction_of_dry_pm10_in_air
mass_fraction_of_water_in_pm10_in_air
I'm not sure that I understand, but I don't think ambient = dry + water
in this case, because the last one appears to mean the mass fraction of
the ambient aerosol which is water. I have a vague recollection of discussing
before what this was intended to mean. Do you want to describe the mass
fraction of the air which is the water of the ambient aerosol?
Ah! I interpreted
"mass_fraction_of_water_in_ambient_aerosol_particles_in_air" wrongly. I
interpreted it as fraction of "water_in_ambient_aerosol_particles" in
"air". But actually, it means fraction of "water" in
"ambient_aerosol_particles_in_air"?
THE END
Good night and sleep well.
Thanks :-)
Best,
Daniel
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