Dear Lars > 1. If I have (observed) daily precipitation with unit mm/day and want to > store this in a CF compliant file, should I use standard name > --- "lwe_thickness_of_precipitation_amount" with canonical unit metre and the > "per day" part is inferred from the time bounds, or > --- "lwe_precipitation_rate" having canonical unit "m s-1", > --- if both are acceptable, is one to be preferred?
You can use whichever you prefer. They would also be distinguished by cell_methods. The first is extensive in time, so it has cell_methods of sum, the second is intensive and has cell_methods of mean. > 2. The long_name is free, but should be descriptive. I am thinking of this as > a succinct plot title, so the question is what practical limitation there > might be in relation to different software. Is it advisable to use ASCII > spaces (from > Github issue #141 indicates that only standard ASCII character set should be > used) ? I expect others have something useful to say about that. Best wishes Jonathan _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
