[CF-metadata] Standard name table update 22 July 2011

From: alison.pamment at stfc.ac.uk <alison.pamment>
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 17:13:25 +0000

Dear All,

The standard name table will be updated tomorrow with new names and aliases that have been agreed over recent months. Details of the planned changes are given below.

The update will be performed with the CEDA vocabulary editor. The changes will be submitted to the NERC vocabulary server today and should be published overnight. Tomorrow I will update the xml and html versions of the standard name table on the CF website. In this way the date and version information in the two locations will be kept synchronised. I will post again when the update is complete.

Apologies for not giving the usual week's notice of this update, but I will be on leave for two weeks between 25 July and 5 August and I wanted to get as many agreed names as possible into the table before then. At the end of this email is a link to the "current status" page of the vocabulary editor. The page shows entries for all the names that are included in this update plus some more that are still under discussion. There are some mailing list threads for which entries have not yet been added to the editor, e.g. Martin Schultz's emission names and some sea surface wave names dating back to 2010. I will complete the task of creating entries for all open standard names discussions when I return from leave.

Best wishes,
Alison

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1. New names
a. Iceberg concentration name. Proposed by Olivier Lauret.
number_of_icebergs_per_unit_area; m-2
b. Sea water property changes over time. Proposed by Paul Durack.
change_over_time_in_sea_water_neutral_density; kg m-3
sea_water_neutral_density; kg m-3
change_over_time_in_sea_water_potential_density; kg m-3
change_over_time_in_sea_water_density; kg m-3
change_over_time_in_sea_water_potential_temperature; K
change_over_time_in_sea_water_temperature; K
change_over_time_in_sea_water_salinity; 1e-3
c. Martian climate model data. Proposed by Alison Pamment on behalf of Luca Montabone.
atmosphere_optical_thickness_due_to_dust_dry_aerosol; 1
surface_frozen_carbon_dioxide_amount; kg m-2
d. Ice sheet mass balance names. Proposed by Jonathan Gregory.
surface_snow_and_ice_refreezing_flux; kg m-2 s-1
surface_snow_and_ice_melt_flux; kg m-2 s-1
e. MSG names. Proposed by Maarten Plieger.
thickness_of_liquid_water_cloud; m
platform_zenith_angle; degree
f. CMIP5 coordinate variable. Proposed by Karl Taylor.
depth_below_geoid; m 
2. Aliases for existing names
a. Standardization of all mass_content names. Proposed by Alison Pamment.
water_vapor_content_of_atmosphere_layer becomes mass_content_of_water_vapor_in_atmosphere_layer
water_content_of_atmosphere_layer becomes mass_content_of_water_in_atmosphere_layer
tendency_of_water_vapor_content_of_atmosphere_layer_due_to_turbulence becomes tendency_of_mass_content_of_water_vapor_in_atmosphere_layer_due_to_turbulence
tendency_of_water_vapor_content_of_atmosphere_layer_due_to_shallow_convection becomes tendency_of_mass_content_of_water_vapor_in_atmosphere_layer_due_to_shallow_convection
tendency_of_water_vapor_content_of_atmosphere_layer_due_to_deep_convection becomes tendency_of_mass_content_of_water_vapor_in_atmosphere_layer_due_to_deep_convection
tendency_of_water_vapor_content_of_atmosphere_layer_due_to_convection becomes tendency_of_mass_content_of_water_vapor_in_atmosphere_layer_due_to_convection
tendency_of_water_vapor_content_of_atmosphere_layer becomes tendency_of_mass_content_of_water_vapor_in_atmosphere_layer
tendency_of_atmosphere_water_vapor_content_due_to_turbulence becomes tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_water_vapor_due_to_turbulence
tendency_of_atmosphere_water_vapor_content_due_to_shallow_convection becomes tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_water_vapor_due_to_shallow_convection
tendency_of_atmosphere_water_vapor_content_due_to_deep_convection becomes tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_water_vapor_due_to_deep_convection
tendency_of_atmosphere_water_vapor_content_due_to_convection becomes tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_water_vapor_due_to_convection
tendency_of_atmosphere_water_vapor_content becomes tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_water_vapor
tendency_of_atmosphere_water_content_due_to_advection becomes tendency_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_water_due_to_advection
lwe_thickness_of_atmosphere_water_vapor_content becomes lwe_thickness_of_atmosphere_mass_content_of_water_vapor
cloud_liquid_water_content_of_atmosphere_layer becomes mass_content_of_cloud_liquid_water_in_atmosphere_layer
cloud_ice_content_of_atmosphere_layer becomes mass_content_of_cloud_ice_in_atmosphere_layer
cloud_condensed_water_content_of_atmosphere_layer becomes mass_content_of_cloud_condensed_water_in_atmosphere_layer
change_over_time_in_atmosphere_water_content_due_to_advection becomes change_over_time_in_atmosphere_mass_content_of_water_due_to_advection
atmosphere_water_content becomes atmosphere_mass_content_of_water
atmosphere_sulfate_content becomes atmosphere_mass_content_of_sulfate
atmosphere_water_vapor_content becomes atmosphere_mass_content_of_water_vapor
  
All names currently entered into the vocabulary editor can be viewed at the following location (apologies for the long URL): http://ndg.nerc.ac.uk//vocab-term-editor/vocab-term-editor/viewCurrentStatus/http%253A%252F%252Fvocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk%252Flist%252FP071%252F17 
Entries with green backgrounds are additions or modifications to the standard name table that will be published in this update.
An amber background means that a name has been accepted for inclusion in the standard name table but is yet to be published.
Entries with brown(ish) backgrounds are names that are still under discussion.
A blue background means a recent proposal that has not yet received any comments.
Once the update is complete, the entries for the published names will be transferred to the "completed work" page where they will be kept as a long term record: http://ndg.nerc.ac.uk//vocab-term-editor/vocab-term-editor/viewCompleteStatus/http%253A%252F%252Fvocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk%252FP071%252F17.
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Alison Pamment                          Tel: +44 1235 778065
NCAS/British Atmospheric Data Centre    Email: alison.pamment at stfc.ac.uk
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory     
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Harwell Oxford, Didcot, OX11 0QX, U.K.
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