I have no concern about whether this stream needs labeling. My concern
is whether you are defining something in the definition which is in no
way described by the label, and which will prevent that label being
used for other variables in other streams.
Put another way, what should the model
Hi John,
Simple pragmatism. It's what a BPR data stream tends to contain and so it
needs labelling.
Cheers, Roy.
From: John Graybeal [jbgrayb...@mindspring.com]
Sent: 27 January 2010 16:41
To: Lowry, Roy K
Cc: Jeff deLaBeaujardiere; cf-metadata@cgd.ucar
Any particular reason that you are biased for this name representing
only a short-term value? Seems to me there is equally the need for a
(measured or modeled) value that would be defined exactly the same
way, but without the time qualifiers.
In general, when CF has a measured observable,
'sea_floor_depth_below_sea_surface' would be fine. Is there a vote or process
for adding it?
Thanks for the note about pressure--we do not currently report it from this
server, but could add it in future.
-Jeff
Lowry, Roy K wrote:
Dear All,
I think a new Standard Name 'sea_floor_depth_below_
Hello Olivier,
The geoid is defined as 'a surface of constant geopotential with which mean sea
level would coincide if the ocean were at rest', so to my thinking
'sea_surface_height_above_geoid' is approximately the distance between the
actual sea surface and mean sea level, whereas what Jeff i
Hello Roy, Hello Jeff,
Just to feed the debate: that in CF table there is also the quantity
'sea_surface_height_above_geoid'. That could be a possibility too, I think?
Cheers,
Olivier.
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Dear All,
I think a new Standard Name 'sea_floor_depth_below_sea_surface' is what's
needed here. My definition for this would be 'The vertical distance between
the sea surface and the seabed at a given point in space and at a given instant
in time or averaged over a time interval that is signi
