[CF-metadata] Fwd: Re: hydrosphere

From: John Graybeal <graybeal>
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 07:54:01 -0800

Why not 'surface_water' ?

john

At 12:59 PM +0000 2/5/08, Jonathan Gregory wrote:
>Dear Luis
>
>> If the names could be expressed in a hierarchy some of them could be
>> specialized ( different form creating an alias ). This will allow
>> preserving the current name and allowing to be more specific when
>> necessary.
>
>I think the crucial question is: what word describes "sea", "lake" and
>"river" in general? The general name is the problem, not the specific one.
>
>Cheers
>
>Jonathan
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