[CF-metadata] new standard names: day, night, and day/night terminator area_fractions

From: Jonathan Gregory <j.m.gregory>
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 17:56:09 +0000

Dear Jim

I agree that "within stated bounds" is explicit and self-explanatory but I
feel that we shouldn't need to say that, because this is true for any variable
at all which has coordinates with bounds, and we have not said it in any other
standard name. It should be implied by saying there is a dependence on a
coordinate, I think. That is why I suggested "as a function of" i.e.
X_as_a_function_of_Y should indicate that X has Y as a coordinate, and it's
likely or required that the coordinates have bounds. It's quite surprising
that we have not needed such a construction before. Mostly one does not have
to state what X depends on because it's obvious what it could depend on e.g.
location and time. Sometimes extra words appear implying dependence on other
coordinates e.g. "spectral", indicating a dependence on wavelength.

Best wishes

Jonathan
Received on Mon Jan 06 2014 - 10:56:09 GMT