[CF-metadata] standard names for sea ice with qualifier

From: Knut Arild Lisæter <knut.liseter>
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 17:35:12 +0200

Dear Jonathan,

Using cell_methods to do this sounds fine to me, and sounds much more
flexible. It could probably be used to describe sea-ice thickness
distributions as well. How would a cell method look for something
like "sea_ice_thickness_where_sea_ice"?

Best Regards,
Knut A. Lis?ter

On Jul 4, 2007, at 4:52 PM, Jonathan Gregory wrote:

> Dear Knut
>
> You have pointed out an ambiguity in our current use of standard
> names. In
> fact we have had previous email discussions about this, but have
> not changed
> the standard to clarify the situation, partly because we haven't
> had an agreed
> process for deciding changes! I will soon repropose a change that
> was discussed
> last year. The main idea is to move the specification of the area
> of averaging
> into cell_methods, rather than specify it in the standard name.
> Thus, sea-ice
> thickness averaged over the grid-box or over the sea-ice area would
> have the
> same standard name, and would be distinguished by cell_methods.
> This feels
> right to me because the distinction relates to the representation
> of subgrid
> variation, and that is the purpose of cell_methods. We would not
> use "where"
> in the standard name for this purpose. What do you think?
>
> Best wishes
>
> Jonathan
>
Received on Wed Jul 04 2007 - 09:35:12 BST