Dear Martin
Yes, that's what I meant, thanks. Indeed, I might be suggesting an extension
of the use of flag_values, because you're right that its existing uses are in
cases where every data value that occurs is one which appears in flag_values.
However this is not a requirement in the convention
Dear Daniel,
The value you should store is 35. There is much discussion in the CF archives
on the various types of salinity and their units that is best not repeated. It
may help your understanding to think of the reason practical salinity is
dimensionless and has the canonical unit 1 as being
Dear Alison,
could you take a look at the request for 4 terms listed below, which I
submitted in February. There have been no other comments, but I think these are
simple adjustments to existing names,
regards,
Martin
From: Juckes, Martin (STFC,RAL,RALSP)
Dear list,
The standard name "sea_water_practical_salinity" has the unit "1". The
CF FAQ says that "1" is used instead of "psu" as unit
(http://cfconventions.org/faq.html#udunits_missing).
If we have "35 psu", does the variable "sea_water_practical_salinity"
has a value of 35 (just unit
Hi Martin,
That seems like a good way forward. I shall make a proposal for a new standard
name in the next day or two.
Regards,
Dan
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From: Martin Juckes - UKRI STFC
Sent: Tuesday, 14 May 2019 17:30
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