Dear Jonathan:
Is there an existing standard name for a distance threshold as well ?
very respectfully,
randy
On Apr 23, 2014, at 11:30 AM, Jonathan Gregory <j.m.gregory at reading.ac.uk> wrote:
> Dear Gary
>
> In your new definition, the threshold is not stated, and I agree that it better
> in principle. However it would be informative to record the threshold used, I
> imagine. This could be done like this:
>
>> The average radius of a central region of clouds in tropical
>> cyclones lacking well-defined eye features
>> which is computed by averaging the great circle distance in four
>> cardinal directions. The radius
>> in each direction is measured from the estimated storm center
>> position to a warm point that exceeds
>> a threshold temperature limit.
> The threshold applied should be recorded in a coordinate variable having the
> standard_name of air_temperature_threshold.
>
> It could be a scalar or a size-one coordinate variable.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Jonathan
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