Dear Stephen,
Thank you for this. It's always encouraging to see other ocean
modellers getting involved in CF! (I've been struggling to make NEMO
output CF-compliant recently.)
It seems that quite a lot of your proposed names are duplicates of
existing ones, eg
rainfall_flux, surface_downward_x_stress, heat_flux_correction,
surface_downward_latent_heat_flux, ocean_vertical_momentum_diffusivity,
etc.
Have you run your names through the latest CF standard_name table at
http://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/documents/cf-standard-names/10/cf-standard-
name-table.html ?
It would show up such coincidences. And many of the entries in this
table have descriptions attached to them, which may indicate whether:
(a) the existing name means what you want it to mean, when they
coincide; or
(b) your field already exists under a different standard_name.
A few points:
(1) There are no standard_names including "laplacian" yet - it would
seem to be the default (coeffs in m2/s).
(2) There are lots of "ocean_vertical_..." diffusivities (see table);
perhaps you need to to preface yours as "ocean_lateral_..." (I don't
know; I'm no expert.)
(3) Are you proposing that cell_thickness be introduced as a new
cell_measure attribute (see Sec 7.2 of CF manual)? That way all fields
"tied to" the cell_thickness could access it through post-processing
software.
Regards,
Ian.
On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 08:15 -0500, Stephen Griffies wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I present here a list of new names for fields relevant to the ocean.
> These fields are a subset of those proposed for the upcoming global
> climate model comparison project CMIP5, which is a project that feeds
> into the IPCC process. A report that fully defines these fields can be
> downloaded from (please look near the top of the web page)
>
> http://www.clivar.org/organization/wgomd/wgomd_publications.php
>
> I ask for your input on these names, with hopes of adding them to the
> CF list.
>
> Sincerely,
> Stephen.Griffies at noaa.gov
> NOAA/GFDL
> co-chair of CLIVAR Working Group for Ocean Model Development
>
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