Dear All,
I am planning to update the standard name table on Monday 11th October
to make a number of changes that have been agreed in recent weeks.
Please see below for a full list of the planned changes. If anyone spots
any errors in the list please contact me as soon as possible.
Best wishes,
Alison
1. New names
a. CMIP5 clouds/aerosol/radiation names. Proposed by Alison Pamment.
convection_time_fraction; 1
shallow_convection_time_fraction; 1
net_downward_shortwave_flux_at_sea_water_surface; W m-2
diffuse_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air; W m-2
diffuse_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_assuming_clear_sky; W m-2
effective_radius_of_cloud_liquid_water_particle_at_liquid_water_cloud_to
p; m
number_concentration_of_cloud_liquid_water_particles_in_air_at_liquid_wa
ter_cloud_top; m-3
number_concentration_of_ice_crystals_in_air_at_ice_cloud_top; m-3
mass_concentration_of_biomass_burning_dry_aerosol_in_air;kg m-3
number_concentration_of_ambient_aerosol_in_air; m-3
number_concentration_of_nucleation_mode_ambient_aerosol_in_air; m-3
number_concentration_of_coarse_mode_ambient_aerosol_in_air; m-3
number_concentration_of_cloud_liquid_water_particles_in_air; m-3
number_concentration_of_ice_crystals_in_air; m-3
surface_diffuse_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air; W m-2
b. CMIP5 carbon cycle names. Proposed by Pierre Friedlingstein and
Alison Pamment.
tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_carbon_dioxide_expressed_as_carbo
n_due_to_anthropogenic_emission; kg m-2 s-1
tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_carbon_dioxide_expressed_as_carbo
n_due_to_emission_from_fossil_fuel_combustion; kg m-2 s-1
surface_upward_mass_flux_of_carbon_dioxide_expressed_as_carbon_due_to_em
ission_from_natural_sources; kg m-2 s-1
atmosphere_mass_of_carbon_dioxide; kg
carbon_content_of_products_of_land_use_change; kg m-2
surface_upward_mass_flux_of_carbon_dioxide_expressed_as_carbon_due_to_em
ission_from_fires_excluding_land_use_change; kg m-2 s-1
surface_upward_mass_flux_of_carbon_dioxide_expressed_as_carbon_due_to_em
ission_from_grazing; kg m-2 s-1
surface_upward_mass_flux_of_carbon_dioxide_expressed_as_carbon_due_to_em
ission_from_crop_harvesting; kg m-2 s-1
surface_net_upward_mass_flux_of_carbon_dioxide_expressed_as_carbon_due_t
o_emission_from_anthropogenic_land_use_change; kg m-2 s-1
surface_net_downward_mass_flux_of_carbon_dioxide_expressed_as_carbon_due
_to_photosynthesis_and_respiration_and_fires_including_land_use_change;
kg m-2 s-1
carbon_mass_flux_into_soil_from_litter; kg m-2 s-1
carbon_mass_flux_into_soil_from_vegetation_excluding_litter; kg m-2 s-1
leaf_carbon_content; kg m-2
wood_carbon_content; kg m-2
root_carbon_content; kg m-2
miscellaneous_living_matter_carbon_content; kg m-2
wood_debris_carbon_content; kg m-2
surface_litter_carbon_content; kg m-2
subsurface_litter_carbon_content; kg m-2
fast_soil_pool_carbon_content; kg m-2
medium_soil_pool_carbon_content; kg m-2
slow_soil_pool_carbon_content; kg m-2
surface_upward_carbon_mass_flux_due_to_plant_respiration_for_biomass_gro
wth; kg m-2 s-1
surface_upward_carbon_mass_flux_due_to_plant_respiration_for_biomass_mai
ntenance; kg m-2 s-1
net_primary_productivity_of_carbon_accumulated_in_leaves; kg m-2 s-1
net_primary_productivity_of_carbon_accumulated_in_wood; kg m-2 s-1
net_primary_productivity_of_carbon_accumulated_in_roots; kg m-2 s-1
surface_net_downward_mass_flux_of_carbon_dioxide_expressed_as_carbon_due
_to_photosynthesis_and_respiration_and_fires_excluding_land_use_change;
kg m-2 s-1.
To cope with the various fractional vegetation coverage quantities we
will use the existing standard name area_fraction and introduce new
entries of primary_evergreen_trees, secondary_deciduous_trees,
secondary_evergreen_trees, c3_plant_functional_types,
c4_plant_functional_types into the area_type table. A number of other
additions to the area_type table are still under discussion in the
'CMIP5 carbon cycle area_types' mailing list thread.
c. CMIP5 cryosphere names. Proposed by Siobhan O'Farrell and Alison
Pamment.
heat_flux_into_sea_water_due_to_freezing_of_frazil_ice; Wm-2
surface_downward_heat_flux_in_snow; Wm-2
sea_ice_surface_temperature; K
age_of_surface_snow; day
permafrost_layer_thickness; m
liquid_water_content_of_permafrost_layer; kg m-2
sea_ice_and_surface_snow_amount; kg m-2
sea_ice_salinity; psu
age_of_sea_ice; year
sea_ice_albedo; 1
integral_of_sea_ice_temperature_wrt_depth_expressed_as_heat_content;
Jm-2
tendency_of_sea_ice_amount_due_to_frazil_ice_accumulation_in_leads;
kgm-2 s-1
tendency_of_sea_ice_amount_due_to_congelation_ice_accumulation; kg m-2
s-1
tendency_of_sea_ice_amount_due_to_snow_conversion; kg m-2 s-1
tendency_of_surface_snow_melt_amount; kg m-2 s-1
tendency_of_sea_ice_amount_due_to_surface_melting; kg m-2 s-1
tendency_of_sea_ice_amount_due_to_basal_melting; kg m-2 s-1
tendency_of_sea_ice_amount_due_to_lateral_growth_of_ice_floes; kg m-2
s-1
sea_ice_x_transport; kg s-1
sea_ice_y_transport; kg s-1
compressive_strength_of_sea_ice; Pa m
sea_water_transport_across_line; kg s-1
eastward_derivative_of_northward_sea_ice_velocity; s-1
northward_derivative_of_eastward_sea_ice_velocity; s-1
upward_x_stress_at_sea_ice_base; Pa
upward_y_stress_at_sea_ice_base; Pa
tendency_of_sea_ice_area_fraction_due_to_ridging; s-1
A new type of snow_on_sea_ice will be added to the area_type table.
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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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