Dear Randy
If it is very product-specific, is it really a geophysical quantity which needs
a standard name? I mean, are there data from several sources for this quantity
which should be regarded as comparable, and which therefore should have a
common standard name?
If the answer is Yes, then I would suggest you propose a standard name which
explicit names the algorithm, like e.g. isccp_cloud_area_fraction.
Best wishes
Jonathan
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> From: "rhorne at excaliburlabs.com" <rhorne at excaliburlabs.com>
> To: cf-metadata at cgd.ucar.edu
> Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 08:28:15 -0400
> Subject: [CF-metadata] how to represent a non-standard error
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> Folks: the GOES-R ground system generates a derived motion winds product.
> Accompaning each wind speed & direction in the product is the amount of
> error associated withe the vector. This error is not a standard_error, but
> an error estimate based on a custom algorithm. Because this is not a
> standard_error, it would seem that using a standard_error standard_name
> modifier would be misleading. Any thoughts on how to represent this
> product-specific error in the NetCDF file ? (The best idead I could come up
> with so far is to establish an ancillary data relationwhip between the wind
> speed/direction variables and the error variable, and use the error
> variable's long_name to describe the error) very respectfully, randy
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