[CF-metadata] percent coverage by GOES-R geophysical variables

From: Jonathan Gregory <j.m.gregory>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 18:11:21 +0100

Dear Randy

> The specific geophysical quantity where this issue came up are the
> different cloud phase categories (std name = cloud_phase_category). that
> are reported for the entire image on a percentage basis.
...
> Moving forward we will propose "percent_" standard_names as required.

Thanks. area_fraction would be more consistent with existing standard_names -
there are quite a lot of them. It is also more informative, because it says
what it's a proportion of. A canonical unit of 1 is dimensionally consistent
with percent, which is a dimensionless unit permitted by udunits.

Best wishes

Jonathan
Received on Fri Jun 14 2013 - 11:11:21 BST