Dear colleagues,
I still think that burden is ambiguous as it is also used to indicate
the column mass. In addition, the word burden evokes the idea of mass (I
am a not an English native speaker, but the Winword Thesaurus gives
load, weight as synonymes for burden.)
Why not use 'total' as a new term? For the CCMVal names this would give
atmosphere_X_mole_total, but could be changed to
atmosphere_X_total_moles or total_atmosphere_X_moles. Just an idea...
Best regards,
Christiane
Jonathan Gregory schrieb:
> Dear Karl and all
>
> I was convinced by Martin's argument before that a new term is needed, and I
> still think he is right. I don't like "burden" particularly, and would prefer
> area_integral_of_content (I think that's what I suggested before), but
> "burden" is a term in actual use, and I take Martin's point that it may not
> be natural to describe the quantity of something in the atmosphere as the
> global area-integral of a quantity per unit area!
>
> Doing an area-integral is not just a statistical operation that can be
> described by cell_methods, because it involves the product of the content and
> the area, before doing the sum. The units of the new quantity don't depend just
> on the units of the original quantity, as m2 are involved as well, so it does
> need its own standard name, I think.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Jonathan
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