Whatever name you come up with, the canonical unit of the heave rate
shouldn't be "ms-1", but rather one of the following:

m s-1

m/s

m.s-1

I favor "m/s".

Regards,
Steve Emmerson

On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 6:32 AM, Hamilton, Steve <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi
>
>
>
> I am trying to find the CF name for heave of a vessel or platform.
> platform_roll_angle and platform_pitch_angle already exist but nothing on
> heave
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>
>
> Would be the following be acceptable
>
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> Platform_heave (m)
>
> Platform_heave_rate (ms-1)
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> Standard names for platform describe the motion and orientation of the
> vehicle from which observations are made e.g. aeroplane, ship or satellite.
>
>
>
> Kind Regards,
>
>
>
> Steve
>
>
>
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