Hi all,
Should I use microatm instead of uatm for a pressure unit in the CMIP5
requested output list? Apparently this is the preferred unit for
partial pressure of CO2 in seawater.
Will the latest versions of udunits recognize it?
thanks for any guidance,
Karl
On 26-Mar-10 8:52 AM, Andrew Clegg wrote:
> Hi Julien,
>
> I'm glad you brought this up. We had a discussion about this recently
> (look for any threads with 'udunits 1 or 2 for CF' in the title):
> http://*mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/pipermail/cf-metadata/2010/thread.html
>
> The best solution (in my opinion) was to use expanded names rather
> than shortened, so instead of using 'u' (which has been replaced by
> '?' in udunits2) you would use 'micro' (which is compatible with
> both). However it would be nice to get a consensus on this or another
> solution, and some text added to the conventions.
>
> Cheers,
> Andrew Clegg
>
>
> Julien Demaria wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I found the "u" micro prefix abbreviation in the current CF-1.4
>> documentation on units:
>> http://*cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/documents/cf-conventions/1.4/cf-conventions.html#units
>>
>>
>> but it seems this prefix is not available in the last udunits-2
>> (udunits-1 is now deprecated)
>>
>> and in udunits-2 they break backward compatibility because the "u"
>> symbol is now used for a new unit "unified_atomic_mass_unit", see in
>> http://*www.*unidata.ucar.edu/software/udunits/udunits-2/udunits2-accepted.xml
>>
>> http://*www.*unidata.ucar.edu/software/udunits/udunits-2/udunits2-prefixes.xml
>>
>>
>> So what is the position of the CF community concerning this point, is
>> the "u" micro prefix CF-1.4 compliant or not?
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Julien
>>
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