Thanks Roy!
On 10/3/18 5:03 PM, Lowry, Roy K. wrote:
Dear Jim,
Currents are measured by attaching one or more current meters along a
rope suspended in the water body known as the mooring. Established
practice is to call the current meters the instruments and the
mooring the platform. As current meters have developed, some have been
fitted with orientation sensors. Nan's concern, which I share, was to
be sure that orientation data from current meters (which everybody in
oceanography I know thinks of as instruments) were covered by the new
Standard Name definitions.
There are other examples I can think of where oceanographic equipment
commonly regarded as instruments measure orientation and/or motion
relative to a local CRS.
Cheers, Roy
I have now retired but will continue to be active through an Emeritus
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*Sent:* 03 October 2018 20:38
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*Subject:* Re: [CF-metadata] Platform Heave
Alison,
It all looks good to me. I must confess that I didn't give the
definitions a super-careful reading.
I have a question, but I don't want it to derail anything. I'd just
like to understand the thought.
We have included instrument as a type of platform per Nan's request,
but in the areas I have worked in an instrument is always mounted on
something, so I don't consider it to be an example of a platform. I'd
consider the thing the instrument is mounted on as the platform. Is it
common in other disciplines to think of instruments as free-standing
(or floating or flying)?
Grace and peace,
Jim
On 10/3/18 1:10 PM, Alison Pamment - UKRI STFC wrote:
Dear Jim, Roy, Nan, Jonathan, et al.,
I have drawn together what I hope is the final list for the platform names.
We seem to be agreed on the need to have triplets of names to cope with
opposite sign conventions and the case where the sign convention is unknown.
I've followed Roy's
commenthttp://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/pipermail/cf-metadata/2018/020540.html
regarding cross-referencing in the definitions, i.e. adding the statement to
only choose the unsigned names if the convention is truly unknown. I plan to
create aliases for some of the existing names as follows:
platform_yaw_angle -> platform_yaw
platform_pictch_angle -> platform_pitch
platform_roll_angle > platform_roll
to make them consistent with the new names. In addition to Jim's 12th September
proposals (http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/pipermail/cf-metadata/2018/020513.html),
new names for platform_sway, platform_sway_rate, platform_surge and
platform_surge_rate are needed to provide complete triplets of names for all
the quantities.
The definitions of the new quantities are all based on Jim's text, with the
'platform' description moved to the end. 'Instrument' has been added to the
list of platforms as I think this was requested by Nan earlier in the
discussion. (I think we can regard an 'instrument' as a way to mount one or
more 'sensors'). The definitions of all existing platform names will be updated
for consistency.
On a grammatical point, I noticed that the definitions of yaw/pitch/roll/surge rate in Jim's message all said "Yaw/pitch/roll/surge rate *might
not* include changes to the "at rest" position of the platform ..." whereas the definitions of sway/heave rate said "Sway/heave
rate *may not* include changes to the "at rest" position of the platform ...". I have changed all the definitions to say "might
not" instead of "may not" as I think the latter could sound like we are prohibiting the inclusion of changes to the "at
rest" position, which I don't think is the intention. Please correct me if this is wrong!
I have added all the names into the standard names
editor:http://cfeditor.ceda.ac.uk/proposals/1?status=active&namefilter=platform&proposerfilter=&descfilter=&unitfilter=&yearfilter=&commentfilter=&filter+and+display=Filter.
To save copying and pasting all the text into this message, please use the link to check through the full
list. N.B. You can refine the filters to view smaller subsets of names together, e.g., 'platform_sway'. If
no objections or suggestions for further changes are received, the names will be accepted in their current
form and published on 15th October.
Best wishes,
Alison
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