Dear CF Community,
This is a follow-up email to my note of 18 November in which I proposed
standard names to fire area, fire temperature, and
fire radiative power. Are there any opinions to what I have proposed below?
Sincerely,
Gary Meehan
On 11/18/2013 6:46 AM, Gary Meehan wrote:
>
> Dear CF community,
>
> I have taken over from the original poster on the subject of new
> standard names for
> fire area, fire temperature, and fire radiative power. Area, in this
> context, is meant
> to be in terms of different types of biomass that are climatically and
> geographically
> defined (e.g., grasslands, forest, etc.).
>
> These definitions have been slightly amended from the originally
> posting as follows:
>
> _Fire_Area_
>
> Standard Name: fire_area
>
> Definition: The X_area means the horizontal area occupied by X within
> the grid cell.
> "Fire area" means the area of detected biomass fire.
>
> Canonical units: m^2
>
> _Fire_Temperature_
>
> Standard_Name: fire_temperature
>
> Definition: The overall temperature of a fire area due to
> contributions from smoldering
> and flaming components.
>
> Canonical units: K
>
> _Fire_Radiative_Power_
>
> Standard_Name: fire_radiative_power
>
> Definition: The product of the irradiance of a fire scene and the
> corresponding fire area.
>
> Canonical units: W
>
> With regards to this last item, radiative power is the only
> radiometric quantity for which we are seeking a standard name.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Gary
> _____________________________
> Gary Meehan
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> Atmospheric and Environmental Research
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> 02421-3126
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> e-mail: gmeehan at aer.com
>
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Gary Meehan
Senior Staff Scientist
Atmospheric and Environmental Research
131 Hartwell Avenue, Lexington, MA 02421-3126
Tel (781) 761-2228 ? Fax (781) 761-2299
e-mail: gmeehan at aer.com
Received on Tue Nov 26 2013 - 12:36:48 GMT
