Dear all I too think it's fine to have a standard name for sea water temperature anomaly. While I understand the concern about potentially huge numbers of anomaly standard names, I don't think we need to deal with it by any other means at present because very few have been proposed. There are just five at present in the table.
Best wishes Jonathan ----- Forwarded message from John Graybeal <[email protected]> ----- > 1) I support Simon/Roy’s request, it seems straightforward. > > 2) Roy M, it would be good to get that discussion topic in a ticket, so we > can continue it there. But, I should warn you, I also went through that > argument about 12 years ago, and I can vouch that the CF metadata community > has been consistent over that time. I can’t remember the precise motivation, > but basically it is almost never the preferred model. (But at least one time, > when the observed thing was a taxonomic entity, I believe it was agreed to > adopt a plug-in approach.) Perhaps now that SWEET is becoming a more > actively managed resource, and once CSDMS is more in the public realm, these > may serve as patterns (and vocabulary sources) for using plug-ins in other > semantic models. > > john g. > > > > On Dec 5, 2018, at 07:22, Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > >> On Dec 5, 2018, at 7:18 AM, Lowry, Roy K. <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> I also feel that this could take some time and do not feel it would be > >> fair to block Simon's request until it is resolved. There are a number of > >> anomaly Standard Names and one more isn't going to make a great deal of > >> difference. > > > > never meant to block Simon's request, apologize if it was taken that way, > > I will look into the Github process. It's just that anomalies are common, > > and we can have an endless series of new names, or else base standard > > names that then have anomalies added to them, which tells me what to do in > > every case. > > > > -Roy M. _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
