[CF-metadata] new standard name for primary productivity of carbon per unit volume

From: Jonathan Gregory <j.m.gregory>
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 13:14:15 +0100

Dear Roy

> I also failed to understand Jonathan's comment concerning an alias - spot measurements and depth-integrated measurements are very different quantities.

My comment referred to units. If quantity X has units involving
per m2 but does not say "per_unit_area" in its name, and then quantity Y
is proposed which is a similar thing to X but is per m3 and it is proposed
to include "per_unit_volume" in its name, it may be helpful to rename X
as X_per_unit_area, of which the original X will be an alias.

The unit being per m2 doesn't imply it's an area-mean. It could still be
a spot measurement like e.g. radiative fluxes in W m-2.

Best wishes

Jonathan
Received on Thu Jun 06 2013 - 06:14:15 BST