[CF-metadata] new vertical coordinate

From: Jonathan Gregory <j.m.gregory>
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 17:13:49 +0100

Dear Beate

> > Dear cf-metadata,
> > I proposed to include following (not dimensionless) vertical coordinate to
> > cf-conventions:
> >
> >
> > Atmosphere Gal-Chen height coordinate (after Gal-Chen and Somerville,
> > 1975)
> > standard_name = "atmosphere_gal-chen_height_coordinate"
> > Definition:
> > z(n,k,j,i) = zs(j,i) + gal-chen(k)*(1-ztop/zs(j,i))

Maybe it should be zs/ztop? In that case I think this would be a special
case of the hybrid height coordinate, which already defined as

z=a(k)+b(k)*zs

Jonathan
Received on Sun Jun 25 2006 - 10:13:49 BST