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From: Jonathan Gregory <j.m.gregory at reading.ac.uk>
Date: Friday, June 17, 2005 3:58 am
Subject: [CF-metadata] udunits for OTS and CF
> Dear Nan
>
> > still hoping the udunits system will at some point include
> conductivity and
> > salinity units other than 1, though.
>
> Yes, this is a common problem. Unidata are going to be revising
> udunits soon
> and may allow provision for different tables. For the moment I
> think we should
> get round this problem by providing a CF version of udunits.dat
> that includes
> psu. What units do you think conductivity should have?
>
Hi all,
I just wanted to put my two cents in here. I sometimes struggle with
dealing with the units for conductivity in software outside of the CF
framework. I notice that you are having a dialogue with the OTS
community. I don't know much about their normal instrument
configuration but in dealing with oceanographic profile data I
frequently deal with instruments from Seabird. Their standard units for
recording conductivity are
Siemens per meter S/m
miliSiemens per centimeter mS/cm
micro Siemens per centimeter uS/cm
To my knowledge these are more or less standard. I personally have
never dealt with microSiemens per centimeter however.
Regards,
Derrick Snowden
> Cheers
>
> Jonathan
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