Dear Jonathan,
> Can we say what kind of particles these are? Presumably "cloud particle"
> would be a reasonable description. In that case, could it be
> thermodynamic_phase_of_cloud_particles_at_cloud_top
> ?
>
Yes indeed, you are right. These kind of particles are cloud water
particles, so can we call it:
thermodynamic_phase_of_cloud_water_particles_at_cloud_top ?
We discussed some more about the defined_by_* suffixes, we would like to
use infrared and near_infrared.
Finally these are the two standard_names:
-
thermodynamic_phase_of_cloud_water_particles_at_cloud_top_defined_by_infrared
-
thermodynamic_phase_of_cloud_water_particles_at_cloud_top_defined_by_near_infrared
How about the CF compliance checkers, are they able to detect the
defined_by_* suffix?
It would be nice to keep only the standard_name without the defined_by_*
variations in the list. I assume that the current CF-checker tools will
not yet detect this?
Regards,
Maarten
Jonathan Gregory schreef:
> Dear Maarten
>
> Thank you for your care with this.
>
>
>>>> - thermodynamic_particle_phase_at_cloud_top (status_flag): "The
>>>> thermodynamic phase of particles at the top of the cloud" ;
>>>>
>>>>
>>> What are the allowed values of this quantity?
>>>
>>>
>> These are: liquid, ice and mixed. (flag_meanings = "liquid ice mixed" ;)
>>
>
> This is an unusual kind of quantity, a string-valued one with particular
> allowed values; region and area_type are similar. That can be stated in the
> definition. I understand that you'll probably encode it as integers using
> the flag_meanings attribute.
>
> Can we say what kind of particles these are? Presumably "cloud particle"
> would be a reasonable description. In that case, could it be
> thermodynamic_phase_of_cloud_particles_at_cloud_top
> ?
>
>
>> The first is indeed derived from visibile radiances while the second is
>> derived from infrared radiances only.
>>
> OK. I would suggest appending defined_by_visible|infrared_radiance to make
> this distinction in the standard name.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Jonathan
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