[CF-metadata] Request for new standard-names: graupel, wind_gust, inland_water_area_fraction

From: Jonathan Gregory <j.m.gregory>
Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 08:22:00 +0200

Dear John and Karl

Sorry, I hadn't seen your emails before making my comment.

I think it would be somewhat inconsistent with other names to include
wind_speed in the gust vector component names, because we use "speed" to mean
the *magnitude* of a vector. [xy]_velocity would be OK and consistent with
other names. We also have the existing names [xy]_wind and
[eastward|northward]_wind, which do not include "velocity", so I made my
comment presuming that the existing names imply plain "wind" means "velocity
of wind".

Best wishes

Jonathan


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> Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 15:57:44 -0700
> From: John Graybeal <john.graybeal at marinexplore.com>
> To: Jonathan Gregory <j.m.gregory at reading.ac.uk>
> CC: cf-metadata at cgd.ucar.edu
> Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] Request for new standard-names: graupel,
> wind_gust, inland_water_area_fraction
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>
> On May 22, 2014, at 14:16, Jonathan Gregory <j.m.gregory at reading.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> > Dear Heiko
> >
> >> x_wind_gust:
> >
> > We already have a standard name of wind_speed_of_gust for the magnitude of
> > the gust velocity, and we x_wind and y_wind for components of wind. Would
> > be OK to have x_wind_of_gust and y_wind_of_gust for consistency?
>
> I consider x_wind_of_gust ambiguous -- wind speed, wind direction, wind_what? (Reference previous suggestion.)
>
> I rather wish x_wind and y_wind were deprecated in favor of x_wind_speed and y_wind_speed.
>
> John
>
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