Dear Jonathan,
About the POM (particulate org. matter) issue:
primary/secondary/BLANK/_organic_matter_dry_aerosol
> Perhaps the primary should say particulate as well, like the other two.
Of course! sorry, this was a typo, which I corrected however at the wiki.
> There might be some redundancy between primary/secondary and due_to,
> but maybe this is helpful for clarity in other names that may be
> needed.
I agree that there is some redundancy but the term is not clearly
defined in the community, so I think we should keep this explicit
description.
> I suppose there could be a tendency of primary aerosol due
> to chemical destruction, for instance.
There could be, but it is not a common term, people just a assume a
common decay rate, because little is known about the decay of POM.
Cheers,
Christiane
Jonathan Gregory a ?crit :
> Dear Christiane
>
>> tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_primary_organic_matter_dry_aerosol_due_to_emission
>> tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_secondary_particulate_organic_matter_dry_aerosol_due_to_chemical_net_production
>> tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_particulate_organic_matter_dry_aerosol_due_to_chemical_net_production_and_emission
>>
>> The idea of secondary aerosols is that they are not emitted but produced
>> in the atmosphere from gaseous precursors, while primary aerosol are
>> already emitted as particles. The third name would be the sum of primary
>> and secondary part. org. matter aerosol.
>
> Perhaps the primary should say particulate as well, like the other two.
>
> There might be some redundancy between primary/secondary and due_to, but maybe
> this is helpful for clarity in other names that may be needed. I suppose there
> could be a tendency of primary aerosol due to chemical destruction, for
> instance.
>
> Cheers
>
> Jonathan
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