[CF-metadata] new named fields for ocean

From: Jonathan Gregory <j.m.gregory>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 16:17:00 +0000

Dear Ian

> 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.

I discussed these names with Steve and I'm sorry I didn't pick this up.
Steve did look through existing standard name table, of course, and the
these existing names can be omitted from the proposal. Thanks.

> (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.

Good idea.

Cheers

Jonathan
Received on Thu Nov 06 2008 - 09:17:00 GMT