Hi all,
Since they are going to be used in conjunction, at least some of the time, I
favor the parallel construction of original_air_pressure_of_lifted_parcel and
final_air_pressure_of_lifted_parcel. It makes the semantic link between the
two quantities more obvious.
Cheers,
--Seth
On Wed, 05 Jun 2013 13:47:24 -0400
Jonathan Wrotny <jwrotny at aer.com> wrote:
>Dear Jonathan G,
>
>I follow your logic and what you say makes sense - "ambient air" is implied as
>the parcel destination by the product standard name. But, to me, it seems
>that "ambient air pressure" is too general for application to the lifted-type
>stability products, especially since two coordinate variables are sometimes
>needed. In effect, the original air pressure is an ambient air pressure, too,
>so there is not enough differentiation. Plus, for consistency, the use of
>'original' and 'final' is nice. I think we had a vote this way from Seth,
>too.
>
>Just my thoughts - I can go either way, ultimately.
>
>-Jonathan Wrotny
>
>On 6/5/2013 1:00 PM, Jonathan Gregory wrote:
>> Dear Jonathan
>>
>> Thanks for your patience! I am pretty happy with this, but I will just have
>> a last go with "ambient", to see what you think. My logic is that
>>
>>>
>temperature_difference_between_ambient_air_and_air_lifted_adiabatically_from_the_surface
>>> temperature_difference_between_ambient_air_and_air_lifted_adiabatically
>> implicitly seem to regard "ambient air" as the destination. Hence it could
>> make sense to use
>>
>>> original_air_pressure_of_lifted_parcel
>>> ambient_air_pressure, or even just air_pressure (an existing stdname)
>> as the coordinates. It sounds a bit more physical than "finish".
>>
>> Best wishes
>>
>> Jonathan
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