[CF-metadata] Salinity units

From: Lowry, Roy K <rkl>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:48:34 +0100

Dear All,

During an exercise with Alison mapping the CF Standard Names to a units vocabulary in the BODC vocabulary server I noticed that the units for salinity were '1.00E-03', i.e. parts per thousand. My understanding in that since the introduction of the Practical Salinity Scale that salinity is dimensionless with units of '1'. Is there agreement for our changing the units in the Standard Name table?

Cheers, Roy.

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