Jonathan,
I agree with what you have said. I was trying to see if I found something that might be more succinct, and that was the direction my explorations took me.
The only bone I have to pick with ?as_a_function_of? is that I find it a bit confusing. In the case at hand, the name area_fraction_as_a_function_of_solar_zenith_angle leads me to think something along the lines of, ?a given value of solar zenith angle results in a particular value of area fraction?, which isn?t quite what is going on.
In any event, this question caught my eye, so I weighed in. I?m OK with whatever solution people come up with.
Grace and peace,
Jim
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On Jan 6, 2014, at 12:56 PM, Jonathan Gregory <j.m.gregory at reading.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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
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