The standard names listed below will be added to the table in two weeks' time,
on Monday 15th November, unless anyone has further comments. Most of them have
been proposed and discussed before on this email list. In summary, they are:
* Radiative flux, radiance and spherical irradiance (i.e. incident on a
hemispherical surface) and equivalent photon fluxes in sea water. Email of Roy
Lowry on 29th July.
* "Gaps" filled in so that rainfall, snowfall and precipitation can all be
expressed as flux (kg m-2 s-1), rate (m s-1), amount (kg m-2) or thickness
(i.e. accumulated rate) (m). Email of Sue Latham on 2nd June.
* Various standard names requested by Karl Taylor because they are required for
quantities being collected by PCMDI for the IPCC 4th assessment report:
- northward ocean tracer transports due to gyre, overturning and diffusion.
- ISCCP cloud fraction.
- Sulfate aerosol concentration and atmosphere content.
- Precipitation onto and evaporation from vegetation canopy.
- Net clear-sky LW and SW fluxes in air.
- Global average sea level change and the part due to thermal expansion.
* Land ice names. Email of Magnus Hagdorn on 20th October.
Jonathan
canonical units:standard name
W m-2:downwelling_photosynthetic_radiative_flux_in_sea_water
W m-2:surface_downwelling_photosynthetic_radiative_flux_in_sea_water
mol m-2 s-1 m-1:downwelling_spectral_photon_flux_in_sea_water
mol m-2 s-1 m-1:surface_downwelling_spectral_photon_flux_in_sea_water
W m-2:downwelling_radiative_flux_in_sea_water
W m-2:surface_downwelling_radiative_flux_in_sea_water
mol m-2 s-1:downwelling_photon_flux_in_sea_water
mol m-2 s-1:surface_downwelling_photon_flux_in_sea_water
W m-2 m-1 sr-1:downwelling_spectral_radiance_in_sea_water
W m-2 m-1 sr-1:surface_downwelling_spectral_radiance_in_sea_water
W m-2 sr-1:downwelling_photosynthetic_radiance_in_sea_water
W m-2 sr-1:surface_downwelling_photosynthetic_radiance_in_sea_water
mol m-2 s-1 m-1 sr-1:downwelling_spectral_photon_radiance_in_sea_water
mol m-2 s-1 m-1 sr-1:surface_downwelling_spectral_photon_radiance_in_sea_water
mol m-2 s-1 sr-1:downwelling_photosynthetic_photon_radiance_in_sea_water
mol m-2 s-1 sr-1:surface_downwelling_photosynthetic_photon_radiance_in_sea_water
W m-2 sr-1:downwelling_radiance_in_sea_water
W m-2 sr-1:surface_downwelling_radiance_in_sea_water
mol m-2 s-1 sr-1:downwelling_photon_radiance_in_sea_water
mol m-2 s-1 sr-1:surface_downwelling_photon_radiance_in_sea_water
W m-2 m-1:downwelling_spectral_spherical_irradiance_in_sea_water
W m-2 m-1:surface_downwelling_spectral_spherical_irradiance_in_sea_water
W m-2:downwelling_photosynthetic_spherical_irradiance_in_sea_water
W m-2:surface_downwelling_photosynthetic_spherical_irradiance_in_sea_water
mol m-2 s-1 m-1:downwelling_spectral_photon_spherical_irradiance_in_sea_water
mol m-2 s-1 m-1:surface_downwelling_spectral_photon_spherical_irradiance_in_sea_water
mol m-2 s-1:downwelling_photosynthetic_photon_spherical_irradiance_in_sea_water
mol m-2 s-1:surface_downwelling_photosynthetic_photon_spherical_irradiance_in_sea_water
W m-2:downwelling_spherical_irradiance_in_sea_water
W m-2:surface_downwelling_spherical_irradiance_in_sea_water
mol m-2 s-1:downwelling_photon_spherical_irradiance_in_sea_water
mol m-2 s-1:surface_downwelling_photon_spherical_irradiance_in_sea_water
kg m-2:rainfall_amount
m:thickness_of_rainfall_amount
m:thickness_of_convective_rainfall_amount
m:thickness_of_large_scale_rainfall_amount
m:lwe_thickness_of_convective_snowfall_amount
m:lwe_thickness_of_large_scale_snowfall_amount
m:thickness_of_convective_snowfall_amount
m:thickness_of_large_scale_snowfall_amount
m:thickness_of_snowfall_amount
kg m-2:large_scale_precipitation_flux
m:lwe_thickness_of_precipitation_amount
kg s-1:northward_ocean_freshwater_transport_due_to_bolus_advection
kg s-1:northward_ocean_freshwater_transport_due_to_diffusion
kg s-1:northward_ocean_freshwater_transport_due_to_gyre
kg s-1:northward_ocean_freshwater_transport_due_to_overturning
W:northward_ocean_heat_transport_due_to_bolus_advection
W:northward_ocean_heat_transport_due_to_diffusion
W:northward_ocean_heat_transport_due_to_gyre
W:northward_ocean_heat_transport_due_to_overturning
kg s-1:northward_ocean_salt_transport_due_to_bolus_advection
kg s-1:northward_ocean_salt_transport_due_to_diffusion
kg s-1:northward_ocean_salt_transport_due_to_gyre
kg s-1:northward_ocean_salt_transport_due_to_overturning
1:isccp_cloud_area_fraction
kg m-3:mass_concentration_of_sulfate_aerosol_in_air
kg m-2:atmosphere_content_of_sulfate_aerosol
kg m-2 s-1:precipitation_flux_onto_canopy_where_land
kg m-2 s-1:water_evaporation_flux_from_canopy_where_land
W m-2:net_downward_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
W m-2:net_upward_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
W m-2:net_downward_longwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
W m-2:net_upward_longwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky
m:global_average_sea_level_change
m:global_average_thermosteric_sea_level_change
m:bedrock_altitude
m:bedrock_altitude_change_due_to_isostatic_adjustment
m:equilibrium_line_altitude
m s-1:land_ice_lwe_basal_melt_rate
m s-1:land_ice_basal_x_velocity
m s-1:land_ice_basal_y_velocity
m s-1:land_ice_lwe_calving_rate
1:land_ice_sigma_coordinate
m s-1:land_ice_lwe_surface_specific_mass_balance
K:land_ice_temperature
m:land_ice_thickness
m s-1:land_ice_vertical_mean_x_velocity
m s-1:land_ice_vertical_mean_y_velocity
m s-1:land_ice_x_velocity
m s-1:land_ice_y_velocity
m s-1:tendency_of_bedrock_altitude
m s-1:tendency_of_land_ice_thickness
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Received on Mon Nov 01 2004 - 02:17:18 GMT
