My preference is also for natural English, so am happy with Jonathan's suggestion. I was just pointing out, rather than supporting, the consistency issue.
Cheers, Roy.
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From: Jonathan Gregory [mailto:jonathan at met.reading.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Jonathan Gregory
Sent: 02 December 2010 15:37
To: Lowry, Roy K.
Cc: Lauret Olivier; Laurence Crosnier; cf-metadata at cgd.ucar.edu; Cristina Tronconi; Bruce Hackett; o.godoy at met.no; Thomas LOUBRIEU; Lia Santoleri; Philippe Garnesson
Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] Standard name request for ocean colour and iceberg concentration
> I had the same gut reaction as you and almost came up with the same response until I read the definition "Content indicates a quantity per unit area" on 369 Standard Names. So, perhaps Olivier is being consistent and tha handful of 'per_unit_area" Standard Names are not.
I think Olivier is being consistent, but we have synonymous phrases, and in
this case I feel that such freedom is useful! We can't make standard names
completely systematic, because they also have to be reasonably natural English,
I would say. Jonathan
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