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[CF-metadata] standard names for "grid relative" sea ice velocity and stresses

From: Jonathan Gregory <j.m.gregory>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 08:18:28 +0000

Dear Knut

For consistency with the sea water names your velocity components should be
called

sea_ice_x_velocity:m s-1
sea_ice_y_velocity:m s-1

OK?

Your others

surface_downward_x_stress
surface_downward_y_stress
downward_x_stress_at_sea_ice_base
downward_y_stress_at_sea_ice_base

look right to me. It has been commented before that it would be useful if we
had some convention for helping software to work out what x- and y-directions
meant locally, but this hasn't been done yet.

Best wishes

Jonathan
http://www.cgam.nerc.ac.uk/~jonathan/
Received on Mon Nov 28 2005 - 01:18:28 GMT

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