Dear Jonathan and Philip,
Thanks for your responses regarding the large_scale/stratiform names.
>
> 5) large_scale and stratiform
>
> Jonathan asked:
> > What's the difference between large_scale and stratiform?
>
> I don't think there's any real difference! Historically, we seem to
> have used 'large_scale' for precipitation originating from
> large_scale/stratiform cloud and 'stratiform' for the cloud itself
(the
> one exception being large_scale_cloud_area_fraction). In recent
> standard name table versions (12-14) we've introduced a lot more
> stratiform cloud names for cloud feedback studies related to CMIP5.
> There are only 13 names referring to 'large_scale' and it strikes me
as
> being a modelling jargon term, so I propose to create aliases to
change
> them all to use 'stratiform'. Do you agree?
>
It seems that we are all agreed to standardize on stratiform. The
following 15 aliases will be created at the next update of the standard
name table.
large_scale_cloud_area_fraction -> stratiform_cloud_area_fraction
large_scale_graupel_flux -> stratiform_graupel_flux
large_scale_precipitation_amount -> stratiform_precipitation_amount
large_scale_precipitation_flux -> stratiform_precipitation_flux
large_scale_rainfall_amount -> stratiform_rainfall_amount
large_scale_rainfall_flux -> stratiform_rainfall_flux
large_scale_rainfall_rate -> stratiform_rainfall_rate
large_scale_snowfall_amount -> stratiform_snowfall_amount
large_scale_snowfall_flux -> stratiform_snowfall_flux
lwe_large_scale_precipitation_rate -> lwe_stratiform_precipitation_rate
lwe_large_scale_snowfall_rate -> lwe_stratiform_snowfall_rate
lwe_thickness_of_large_scale_precipitation_amount ->
lwe_thickness_of_stratiform_precipitation_amount
lwe_thickness_of_large_scale_snowfall_amount ->
lwe_thickness_of_stratiform_snowfall_amount
thickness_of_large_scale_rainfall_amount ->
thickness_of_stratiform_rainfall_amount
thickness_of_large_scale_snowfall_amount ->
thickness_of_stratiform_snowfall_amount
Best wishes,
Alison
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