Dear Jonathan, dear Roy, thanks a lot for your encouraging responses.
There is a large potential user group for this standard name. Firstly, there is an increasing number of pollen modeling and measurement activities. Secondly, NetCDF as standard output file format is becoming more and more established in this context. The introduction of CF standard names for pollen would enable users to store and share their output in a more FAIR manner. For Europe, for example, there are daily CAMS pollen forecasts https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://ads.atmosphere.copernicus.eu/cdsapp*!/dataset/cams-europe-air-quality-forecasts?tab=overview__;Iw!!G2kpM7uM-TzIFchu!k0fYLAfm5qUVhLe8OkYjyVxps6U7DIMradkbhTvKgvCJ6aI7rTmrI26BukiG50cjUsUrkUM_xbQ$ , publicly available in GRIB and NetCDF. There are also many activities on modeling atmospheric pollen concentrations elsewhere, e.g. using – GEM-MACH (Robichaud 2021: https:// doi.org/10.3390/atmos12060789), – CMAQ-pollen (Efstathiou et al. 2011: https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2010.12.008__;!!G2kpM7uM-TzIFchu!k0fYLAfm5qUVhLe8OkYjyVxps6U7DIMradkbhTvKgvCJ6aI7rTmrI26BukiG50cjUsUrODaNQVQ$ ), – the "pollen-extended" WRF-Chem (Werner et al. 2021: https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://doi.org/10.1007/s00484-020-02045-1__;!!G2kpM7uM-TzIFchu!k0fYLAfm5qUVhLe8OkYjyVxps6U7DIMradkbhTvKgvCJ6aI7rTmrI26BukiG50cjUsUrsvr2Cn8$ ), – CHIMERE (Mesut et al. 2021: https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos12060693__;!!G2kpM7uM-TzIFchu!k0fYLAfm5qUVhLe8OkYjyVxps6U7DIMradkbhTvKgvCJ6aI7rTmrI26BukiG50cjUsUrX0Lxmkg$ ), – METRAS (Schueler and Schlünzen 2006: https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://doi.org/10.1007/s10666-006-9044-8__;!!G2kpM7uM-TzIFchu!k0fYLAfm5qUVhLe8OkYjyVxps6U7DIMradkbhTvKgvCJ6aI7rTmrI26BukiG50cjUsUrwtsfGdE$ ). I would therefore very much appreciate if you could support my proposal and add the proposed standard name to the CF table. Thank you and best regards Angelika. P.S.: For illustration, I drafted an example usage of the proposed pollen concentration standard name in a NetCDF file dimension: time = 6 ; lat = 40 ; lon = 60 ; string80 = 80 ; taxon = 11 ; variables: float time(time); …. float pollen_conc(time,lat,lon,taxon) ; pollen_conc:standard_name = "number_concentration_of_biological_taxon_pollen_grains_in_air“ ; pollen_conc:units = „m-3“ ; pollen_conc:coordinates = "taxon_lsid taxon_name“ ; pollen_conc:long_name = „airborne pollen concentration“ ; char taxon_name(taxon,string80) ; taxon_name:standard_name = "biological_taxon_name“ ; taxon_name:long_name = „pollen (Latin name)" ; char taxon_lsid(taxon,string80) ; taxon_lsid:standard_name = "biological_taxon_lsid“ ; taxon_lsid:long_name = „ITIS identifier“ ; taxon_lsid:url = „https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://www.itis.gov/__;!!G2kpM7uM-TzIFchu!k0fYLAfm5qUVhLe8OkYjyVxps6U7DIMradkbhTvKgvCJ6aI7rTmrI26BukiG50cjUsUrbBZOwsc$ “ ; char pollen_common_name(taxon,string80) ; pollen_common_name:long_name = „pollen (common name)“ ; pollen_common_name:description = „Common names as listed in ITIS“ ; pollen_common_name:url = „https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://www.itis.gov/__;!!G2kpM7uM-TzIFchu!k0fYLAfm5qUVhLe8OkYjyVxps6U7DIMradkbhTvKgvCJ6aI7rTmrI26BukiG50cjUsUrbBZOwsc$ “ ; data: time = 6., 12., ... ; lat = 1., 2., ... ; lon = 5., 6., ... ; pollen_conc = 0.0087, 0.28367, ... ; taxon_name = "Betula L.", "Poaceae", "Artemisia L.", "Ambrosia L.", "Secale L.", "Alnus Mill.", "Fraxinus L.", "Corylus L.", "Olea L.", "Fagus L.", "Quercus L." ; taxon_lsid ="urn:lsid:itis.gov:itis_tsn:19478", "urn:lsid:itis.gov:itis_tsn:40351", "urn:lsid:itis.gov:itis_tsn:35431", "urn:lsid:itis.gov:itis_tsn:36495", "urn:lsid:itis.gov:itis_tsn:42089", "urn:lsid:itis.gov:itis_tsn:19466", "urn:lsid:itis.gov:itis_tsn:32928", "urn:lsid:itis.gov:itis_tsn:19505", "urn:lsid:itis.gov:itis_tsn:32989", "urn:lsid:itis.gov:itis_tsn:19461", "urn:lsid:itis.gov:itis_tsn:19276“ ; pollen_common_name="birch", "grasses", "sagebrush", "ragweed", "rye", "alder", "ash", "hazelnut", "olive", "beech", "oak“ ; -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://github.com/cf-convention/cf-conventions/issues/332*issuecomment-886407883__;Iw!!G2kpM7uM-TzIFchu!k0fYLAfm5qUVhLe8OkYjyVxps6U7DIMradkbhTvKgvCJ6aI7rTmrI26BukiG50cjUsUrKM9VyzA$ This list forwards relevant notifications from Github. It is distinct from [email protected], although if you do nothing, a subscription to the UCAR list will result in a subscription to this list. To unsubscribe from this list only, send a message to [email protected].
