[CF-metadata] RE: new standard names

From: Jonathan Gregory <j.m.gregory>
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 18:09:54 +0100

Dear Alison and Beate

> > 17. friction_velocity, m s-1
The term friction_velocity is fine, of course, but I think we ought to be
specific about which boundary layer we mean (atmosphere or ocean, and maybe
a friction velocity might also be used in ocean bottom boundary layer - I
don't know).

> > 18. greenness_index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), 1
> These are both fine.
Since normalized_difference_vegetation_index is the usual name of this
quantity, could we not use that as the standard name?

> > 19. spectral models in some cases calculate negative humidities, to
> give them
> > meteorological sense they are set to 0 to make this reconstructable
> these difference
> > values are stored:
> > filling_of_negative_specific_humidities, kg m-2
> I suggest that we use the word "correction" rather than "filling"
I agree. Also, isn't specific humidity dimensionless? Perhaps the word "model"
could be inserted somewhere to make clear this is an artefact.

Cheers

Jonathan
Received on Mon Jul 24 2006 - 11:09:54 BST