[CF-metadata] new standard names: fire area, fire, temperature, fire radiative power

From: Charlie Zender <zender>
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2013 17:10:16 -0800

Dear Gary,

I like your newer names better.
I have not looked at how CF tends to name variables that combine
to form other variables. Maybe they have a standard practice?
If not, I recommend permuting your formula so that names proceed
with increasing level of detail:

Standard name: fire_X_area
Standard name: fire_X_temperature
Standard Name: fire_X_radiative_power

Putting the adjectives second, after fire_, causes all the fire
variables show up together when listed alphabetically by standard
name. On the other hand, it doesn't read as naturally. I'm sure
someone will chime in if there is already a CF preference for
one or the other ordering.

c

-- 
Charlie Zender, Earth System Sci. & Computer Sci.
University of California, Irvine 949-891-2429 )'(

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