[CF-metadata] area_fraction

From: Jonathan Gregory <j.m.gregory>
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 17:59:22 +0100

Dear Karl

> maybe "land_cover" should be
> generalized to cover ocean characteristics (e.g., sea ice ... is this
> the only possibility?), and land_cover="lake" sounds a bit odd.

A more general standard name of surface_cover has been added in the latest
set, which resulted from proposals of Geyer and Ruane.

Cheers

Jonathan
Received on Tue Apr 04 2006 - 10:59:22 BST