Dear Stephen (Pascoe) and all,
thanks for your comment. You are certainly right that no one wants to push 4500*physical parameters standard names. BUT: I am concerned that your proposal to adopt CF (the "climate and forecasting" convention) to the kinetics community might really cross a border. It is my understanding that CF is tailored to Earth System Models, and they will unlikely ever see 4500 chemical compounds (we are lucky if they include more than 4 at this stage). Of course it might be an advantage if a potential standard in the kinetics community would share many concepts and terms with CF, but I don't think that CF itself is the right place for this.
It seems to me like the real issue at hand is the decision whether or not to include the compound name explicitely in the standard name or not. Frankly, from my perspective, it would be the opposite from Stephen's: if we have to go to other attributes, I fear that things become so complicated that no one will use CF. Then again, there is some virtue in the "two table approach" that Martin Suttie has brought into the GRIB2 proposal. BUT, as things have developed in CF I fear this is a fundamentally different approach. Why should there be two atributes for chemistry but not for other quantities? Shouldn't the concept of "change_of_X_due_to_Y" then also apply to, say temperature, salinity and others?
Best regards,
Martin Schultz
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