Hi Alison,
If a community uses the term 'diameter' then I would stick with that and in our
experience with both sediment grain-size and aerosol size spectra 'diameter' is
the word exclusively used.
Cheers, Roy.
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Dear Jonathan and Bruno,
I agree with Jonathan's point that the particle size is a geophysical
parameter, so we should not refer to 'bins' in the standard name. I
think 'size' is too ambiguous a term so I vote for
aerosol_particle_radius or aerosol_particle_diameter.
Jonathan is correct that we
Dear Bruno,
Thank you for proposing the names and definitions for liquid water quantities
in air. I think the names themselves are fine.
As regards the various droplet sizes, I found the following definitions in the
AMS Glossary (http://amsglossary.allenpress.com/glossary).
Cloud drop - "A s
Dear Bruno
> I love simple solutions.
As physicists, we always think simplicity and elegance imply correctness!
> As for the name of the coordinate variable, I would prefer diameter
> over size.
What about radius? There are existing names for radii of cloud particles,
and these are analogous.
Le mercredi 24 novembre 2010 à 11:27 +, Jonathan Gregory a écrit :
> [...]. However a
> simple solution might be just to use the existing standard name of
> number_concentration_of_ambient_aerosol_in_air, and include a coordinate
> variable to specify the sizes, and their ranges recorded in the
Dear Bruno
The guidelines exist only to suggest how new standard names should be
constructed. It doesn't imply that a name which conforms to the guidelines
automatically exists. The names still have to be proposed and agreed.
I agree, you could regard your quantity as a kind of histogram. However
Dear all,
My next question will concern aerosols.
I'm looking for a CF standard name for aerosol size distributions
expressed in numbers concentrations.
"number_concentration_of_ambient_aerosol_in_air" is the name of the
physical parameter, but I also need to express the fact that I have
p
Dear all,
Last month, I wrote about the lack of variable name for a local
measurement of liquid water content.
Jonathan Gregory made some constructive remarks, and, since then,
nobody opposed.
So, I would like to have these names added in the the next version of
the official list. What
