[CF-metadata] Sea surface height

From: Jim Biard <jim.biard>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:19:43 -0500

Makes sense to me. Now if only "_anomaly" were a standard extension to
standard names, you'd be all set!

On 1/26/2012 8:58 AM, Stephane TAROT wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In the MyOcean european project, we are using
> sea_surface_height_above_sea_level for the insitu data mesured by tide
> gauges.
>
> By substracting these measures and the predicted tide sea level, we
> calculate the residual due to atmospheric (pressure and wind) conditions.
>
> Is there an existing standard name for the residual ?
> Should we consider that the predicted tide sea level is a sort of
> climatology and therefore use
> "sea_surface_height_above_sea_level__anomaly_" for the residual ?
>
>
> Thanks for your help
>
> St?phane Tarot (Ifremer)
>
>

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Jim Biard
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Remote Sensing and Applications Division (RSAD)
National Climatic Data Center
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