Dear Alison
You're right that an ice-shelf is ice that formed on land and flowed over the
sea as an extension of an ice-sheet or glacier.
I think that one question is whether we want the standard name itself to
indicate what sort of ice it is. That is, is the thickness of sea ice a
different
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:00:47 -0700 (PDT) Philip J. Cameronsmith wrote:
Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] standard names for chemistry - MCM
[...] In practice, gas phase chemicals are typically recorded using number of
moles, while aerosols are usually recorded using mass. Hence, the G for
gases, A
Hi,
There is currently a Wikipedia discussion taking place on whether a CF
Metadata Conventions article is appropriate:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/CF_Metadata_Conventions
One of the characteristics that Wikipedia strives for in all articles is
verifiable
Dear Martin
BTW: Do we really need the expressed in this? _as_ should also do the job,
no? Some of the standard names have become rather long already...
... but not as long as the discussion we had about this specific point! That
phrase seemed to be the clearest solution. Yes, some of the names
Platform_yaw_angle as defined per Bruno/CF makes more sense to me, but
it appears to be incorrect with respect to the current definitions you
can easily find for yaw angle. (hard to find something definitive
here) Attack angle is around the horizontal left-right axis -- it is
the
Yes, I read the conventions section 4.4, including a few times while
preparing the question. Not too complicated, and helpful; it just
didn't address my problem, that I could see.
A point I found useful to consider is the idea that these are
secondary time parameters. When the netCDF file
