[CF-metadata] standard name proposals

From: Jonathan Gregory <j.m.gregory>
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 19:36:01 +0100

Dear Brian

> By convention the units associated with a variable are the units of the
> unpacked data. Using an add_offset of -1000 with packed data values of
> 1024-1028 implies that the true values of density and potential density are
> in the range 24-28 kg/m3, which is not correct.

Would it not be the other way round? The density values are stored as numbers
in the range 24-28 kg m-3 i.e. as sigma-theta, with add_offset of +1000. Once
the offset has been added, they are values in the range 1024-1028, matching
their standard name of sea_water_potential_density.

Cheers

Jonathan
Received on Thu Aug 07 2003 - 12:36:01 BST