Excellent. Just what I needed. Thanks, John!
Cheers,
John
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:11 AM, John Graybeal <jgraybeal at ucsd.edu> wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> Make sure you are using the current standard name table, from
> http://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/documents/cf-standard-names/. There is a
> sub-link on Google (has been for a long time) to a list from 2009, maybe CF
> folks can mechanically create a hint from there to the current list....
>
> Anyway, quite probably the one pH that exists is the one you want (copied
> from
> http://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/documents/cf-standard-names/standard-name-table/22/cf-standard-name-table.html):
> sea_water_ph_reported_on_total_scale. It is indeed dimensionless.
>
> Previously I have proposed names for several other measurements of pH that
> produce different numbers because they are performed in different ways, but
> I didn't have a current use for those names so they were not included. Let
> me know or look back in the CF list if you need to dig them up. (There may
> be an active-but-older request to add a few back in? Not sure.)
>
> John
>
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> On Mar 12, 2013, at 14:00, John Maurer wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > What is the recommended CF standard name associated with pH? In
> particular, the dataset I am working with reports the pH of sea water
> samples. I could not find anything related to pH in the standard name table
> online, but perhaps I'm not using the correct search terms. Since pH is not
> a recognized UDUNIT, I'm also assuming the units for a pH quantity would be
> "1" (dimensionless)?
> > Thanks,
> > John Maurer
> > Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System (PacIOOS)
> > University of Hawaii at Manoa
> >
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