Dear Jonathan,
I discussed this now with our modellers, and you are right, we are only
interested in stokes drift induced by sea surface waves. So my proposal
is then as follows:
sea_surface_wave_stokes_drift_x_velocity
sea_surface_wave_stokes_drift_y_velocity
units: m/s
description:
A velocity is a vector quantity. "x" indicates a vector component along
the grid x-axis, positive with increasing x. The Stokes drift velocity
is the average velocity when following a specific fluid parcel as it
travels with the fluid flow. For instance, a particle floating at the
free surface of water waves, experiences a net Stokes drift velocity in
the direction of wave propagation.
Best wishes,
Heiko
On 2013-05-06 22:31, Jonathan Gregory wrote:
> Dear Heiko
>
> I don't believe we have a standard name for that. I think it would be helpful
> to add more specifics, such as sea_surface_wave (a phrase that appears in other
> standard names), if that's applicable.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Jonathan
>
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>> Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 17:57:33 +0200
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>> Subject: [CF-metadata] standard-name for stokes drift
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm looking for the standard-name for stokes drift for a wave-model:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stokes_drift
>>
>>
>> It's defined by ECMWF as:
>> http://www.ecmwf.int/publications/manuals/d/gribapi/param/filter=grib1/order=paramId/order_type=asc/p=1/search=stokes/table=all/
>>
>> I couldn't find any, and if this is really the case, I would propose
>> something like
>>
>> stokes_drift_x_velocity
>> stokes_drift_y_velocity
>>
>>
>> units: m/s
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Heiko
>>
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