[CF-metadata] a different (but perhaps unoriginal) approach to standard name construction
Dear Jonathan,
do you like to discuss this?
>
> * I listed in another thread some questions that Stephen Griffies and I have
> been discussing for ocean quantities for CMIP5. These are the kind of
> decisions that took most time, not actually stringing together a name:
> - Basin masks for tracer and velocity are the same geophysical quantity, but
> distinguished by coordinates.
> - What does "ideal age" of sea water mean?
> - Is the mixed-layer depth determined by a buoyancy criterion the same concept
> as mixed-layer depth determined by sigma-theta?
> - Transports across various straits are all the same geophysical quantity, and
> the strait should be identified by some string-valued coordinate.
> - How do we most usefully categorise the various kinds of ocean mixing in a
> way which will be helpful for comparing models?
> - What is the clearest way to describe the energetics of vertical mixing: is
> it the rate of work against stratification, or the rate of change of potential
> energy?
>
Best wishes
Heinke
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