[CF-metadata] proposed new vertical coordinate

From: Jonathan Gregory <j.m.gregory>
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 08:19:22 +0000

Dear Ben

I agree that the proposal is good - thanks. I would comment that the quantity
ln(p0/p) could have a standard name which says what it is explicitly, rather
than "atmosphere_log_pressure_coordinate". I suppose that it could be called
"natural_logarithm_of_reciprocal_air_pressure", adding a note to the
stdname definition about the reference pressure, since logs can only be taken
of dimensionless quantities anyway. The other dimensionless coordinates have
got stdnames of such-and-such coordinate because those quantities have no other
purpose and they can't so easily be described. What do you think? Would that
be awkward?

Best wishes

Jonathan
Received on Thu Mar 09 2006 - 01:19:22 GMT