Dear All,
Over recent weeks there has been a large number of proposals for new
standard names. To help keep track of them all I have prepared a brief
summary of the currently open standard names discussion threads. The
proposals are listed in date order (oldest first). If any set of
proposals has been missed from this list please let me know and it will
be added.
The next update of the standard name table will take place on 10 March.
This will definitely go ahead as there are agreed names waiting for
inclusion. A complete list of the new names and other planned
modifications to the table will be published in advance of the update.
I have recently been concentrating on the various sets of ocean related
proposals, the majority of which are now agreed. The oldest, and by far
the largest, of the remaining threads is that relating to the set of
chemical names originally proposed by Martina Stockhause. I would like
to take the same approach with the chemistry names as I have with the
ocean names, i.e. review several threads in tandem, as this helps to
keep track of any issues affecting more than one set of names. Most
recently, various sets of names have been proposed relating to the CMIP5
work and these need to be addressed on a relatively short timescale.
Therefore, over the next few weeks I will be dividing my time mainly
between the chemistry names and the various CMIP5 threads.
As there is currently much activity in the area of standard names I will
publish another summary status report in two weeks time to give an
update on the situation.
Best wishes,
Alison
Thread(s): CF standard names for chemical constituents andaerosols
(resulting from a GRIB2 proposal); CF: new names for atmospheric
chemistry and aerosols; CF standard names for chemical constituents
andaerosols; standard names for chemistry - MCM
Proposer: Martina Stockhause
Date proposed: 18 Sep 2008
Number of names (approx.): 2 800
Project(s): GRIB2
Status: Open, currently being reviewed
Thread(s): Standard name(s) needed for satellite-based icedrift products
Proposer: Thomas Lavergne
Date proposed: 24 Oct 2008
Number of names (approx.): 6
Project(s):
Status: Open, mostly agreed, definitions still under discussion
Thread(s): new named fields for ocean
Proposer: Stephen Griffies
Date proposed: 6 Nov 2008
Number of names (approx.): 60
Project(s): CMIP5
Status: Open, most names agreed
Thread(s): CF standard names for echam5-hammoz
Proposer: Heinke Hoeck
Date proposed: 7 Nov 2008
Number of names (approx.): 90
Project(s): echam5-hammoz model (aerosol-chemistry-climate)
Status: Open, currently being reviewed
Thread(s): new names for AeroCom - optcial properties; new names for
AeroCom - cloud properties; new names for AeroCom - mass / mole /
number; new names for AeroCom - tendencies; new names for AeroCom -
remaining; new names for AeroCom
Proposer: Christiane Textor
Date proposed: 23 Nov 2008
Number of names (approx.): 50 (total for all threads)
Project(s): AeroCom; HTAP; AC&C
Status: Open, currently being reviewed
Thread: Proposed CF standard names for the NEMO oceanmodel
Proposer: Ian Culverwell
Date proposed: 26 Nov 2008
Number of names (approx.): 3
Project(s): NEMO
Status: Open, all names now accepted
Thread: Proposal for new CF standard_names, ocean biochemistry
Proposer: Bruce Hackett
Date proposed: 28 Nov 2008
Number of names (approx.): 13
Project(s):
Status: Open
Thread: Mixing Ratio
Proposer: Heinke Hoeck
Date proposed: Nov 2008 (arising from earlier thread 'new standard names
for ECHAM5/CLM/ERA')
Number of names (approx.): 1
Project(s):
Status: Open
Thread: new standard names for atmospheric dynamics
Proposer: Martin Schultz
Date proposed: 14 Jan 2009
Number of names (approx.): 8
Project(s): ECHAM
Status: Open
Thread: Some new standard names for ocean model fields
Proposer: Adam Blaker
Date proposed: 20 Jan 2009
Number of names (approx.): 14
Project(s):
Status: Open, all names now accepted
Thread: New Cryospheric variables
Proposer: Siobhan O' Farrell
Date proposed: 22 Jan 2009
Number of names (approx.): 130 (of which some appear to be quantities
already in the standard name table)
Project(s): CMIP5
Status: Open, currently being reviewed
Thread: Some new standard names for cloud feedback study
Proposer: Tomoo Ogura
Date proposed: 26 Jan 2009
Number of names (approx.): 33
Project(s): CMIP5
Status: Open, currently being reviewed
Thread: Emissivity not found in the current standard name table
Proposer: Won, Young-In
Date proposed: 29 Jan 2009
Number of names (approx.): 3
Project(s): AIRS (Atmospheric Infrared Sounders)
Status: Open, currently being reviewed
Thread: Proposal for new standard names (this thread relates to cloud
radiative properties)
Proposer: Alejandro Bodas-Salcedo
Date proposed: 11 Feb 2009
Number of names (approx.): 38
Project(s): CFMIP-2/CMIP5
Status: Open, currently being reviewed
Thread: new variables (this thread contains heat flux and friction
names)
Proposer: Christof Luepkes
Date proposed: 11 Feb 2009
Number of names (approx.): 5
Project(s):
Status: Open
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J Alison Pamment Tel: +44 1235 778065
NCAS/British Atmospheric Data Centre Fax: +44 1235 446314
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Email: alison.pamment at stfc.ac.uk
Chilton, Didcot, OX11 0QX, U.K.
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