Hi Jonathan:
Thanks for the reply and I take your point on the description (although
there are far more strange names in CF that this I'm sure!). alison, before
we conclude with your casting vote authority, I'd like to check the
discussion regarding sea_foundation_temperature and sea_temperature_at
>
> _diurnal_thermocline_base with the GHRSST-PP community (who are after all
> the basic customers for this discussion). There are 25Gb of data a day
> being exchanged that already use the GHRSST-PP netCDF definitions I
> originally proposed and it will require some effort to change this community
> to the 'new CF approved' names (it may never happen of course if that
> community decides to stick with what it has got already). On the other hand
> thay may say fine, sea_temperature_at_diurnal_thermocline_base it is!
All the best
Craig
On 19/03/2008, Jonathan Gregory <j.m.gregory at reading.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Dear Craig
>
> A standard name is defined for a quantity that is regarded as comparable
> from different datasets even if the method of calculation differs, so I
> agree
> if that is the case that you need a stdname for (5). However I think
>
> sea_surface_temperature_at_diurnal_thermocline_base
>
> would be a much better choice of standard name than
> sea_foundation_temperature
> because the former is much more informative, and the latter would be
> understood by far fewer people, I suspect.
>
> Alison moderates the discussions about standard names on this email list.
>
> Best wishes
>
>
> Jonathan
>
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