Dear Jonathan W and Seth
You agree on this, and I don't strongly disagree. OK then; thanks for
considering it.
Cheers
Jonathan
On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 01:47:24PM -0400, Jonathan Wrotny wrote:
> Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 13:47:24 -0400
> From: Jonathan Wrotny <jwrotny at aer.com>
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> To: Jonathan Gregory <j.m.gregory at reading.ac.uk>
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> Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] atmosphere stability indices
>
> 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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