Re: [CF-metadata] Proposed new standard name: effective_radius_of_cloud_particle_at_cloud_top

2013-12-19 Thread John Graybeal
Note that the new name effective_radius_of_cloud_particles_at_cloud_top takes away any mention of water, so now any particle is included. John On Dec 19, 2013, at 03:44, alison.pamm...@stfc.ac.uk wrote: Dear Jonathan, Condensed_water is indeed the phrase used in CF standard names to refer

[CF-metadata] atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_cloud definition amendment

2013-12-19 Thread Gary Meehan
Dear CF board, I would like to close the loop on a question posed this past April pertaining to the definition associated with the standard name, atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_cloud. At the time, it was observed by the original poster that the definition of this standard name does not

Re: [CF-metadata] atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_cloud definition amendment

2013-12-19 Thread John Graybeal
All of this makes sense to me. It prompts me to ask: Is 'cloud' actually a process? Or should the standard due_to definition clause be updated to include process or substance? John On Dec 19, 2013, at 09:49, Gary Meehan gmee...@aer.com wrote: Dear CF board, I would like to close the

[CF-metadata] one data variable is associated with two grid mappings

2013-12-19 Thread Randy Horne
Folks: We have a product with a data variable containing 10 degree latitude band statistics (i.e. min, max) derived from observation data whose east/west extents are associated with the field of view of a geostationary satellite (i.e. the recently defined geostationary grid mapping /