Dear Christophe and Jonathan,
I also support this proposal. We don't currently have any standard names that use Dobson Units - I think UDUnits1 didn't support it. However, since it is defined in UDunits2 I don't see any problem with adding it.
Best wishes,
Alison
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STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: CF-metadata [mailto:cf-metadata-bounces at cgd.ucar.edu] On Behalf
> Of Jonathan Gregory
> Sent: 27 November 2012 20:52
> To: cf-metadata at cgd.ucar.edu
> Subject: [CF-metadata] new standard name proposal for total ozone in DU
>
> Dear Christophe
>
> > So I'd like to propose the following variable name for total ozone
> > columns based on recommendations I was given:
> > - "atmosphere_mole_content_of_ozone" expressed in Dobson Units.
> > Dobson Unit (DU) is already defined in the UDUNIT package ans is
> > equivalent to 446.2 micromoles m-2.
>
> This seems fine to me. It is consistent in construction with existing
> names
> for a quantity in mol m-2.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Jonathan
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